Word: ethereal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveling," she wrote to a friend recently. Last week she was back at her job as stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced with invisible, ether-borne messages linking the plane and its 48 passengers to the earth below...
...Wine," said he, "contains and carries to the human organism ... a complex of mineral materials (calcium salts, potassium, iron, sodium and many more), of organic materials (alcohols, sugar, glycerine, organic acids, tannin, ether, alde-hydes), of vitamins, and diverse mineral substances. Because of these different things wine, for a healthy man who makes habitual use of it, excites the appetite, stimulates the motor and secretive functions . . . and helps the whole digestion ... It favors general nutrition and the stability of a man's humor...
...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...
Last week, two Johns Hopkins physicians, Drs. Leslie N. Gay and Paul Carliner, announced a new remedy which seemed to work. It was a drug called Dramamine (full name: beta-dimethyla-minoethyl benzohydryl ether 8-chlorothe-ophyllinate...
This format is the same as the duo used last year when they first brought their program to the ether...