Word: ethereality
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...College of Mount St. Vincent, she was beginning her career as a teacher of English, and as she walked toward the Brooklyn high school to which she had been assigned, she felt an "excitement in the air, that particular sharp-pencil, clean-copybook, brand-new-eraser crackle in the ether that made me walk a little faster...
...fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase cast her spell over thousands of Smith girls by her uninhibited showmanship, once astounded her doctor by babbling off the dates of all the Roman Emperors while coming out of the ether after a tonsillectomy. Mistress of the masterly digression, she could wander from a description of Isaiah as "the Shelley of the Bible" to a full-fledged dissertation on skylarks, and this would remind her of the meadows around Britain's Grantchester, which in turn might-or might not-bring...
...boosts the effectiveness of nonflammable nitrous oxide so that it can replace high explosives such as ether...
...Patient F.R.) blew up at me at the dance. He likes the fast music and he got mad when I played a slow number in the juke box. He walked away from me. The next day I chose to take care of him in an ether treatment because I made up my mind that somehow I'd get him to like me again. He does now, but it was because of my persistence in the matter...
...monkeys get shots (in the arms) ten times as potent as a human child receives. And twelve rhesus monkeys are injected, with the vaccine going into the nervous system-some directly into the brain itself. Even if these monkeys fail to get sick, they must be killed (painlessly by ether) after a month and their nerve tissues are examined minutely...