Word: ethereality
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...poured into the little town of Jefferson in northern Georgia. Most of them went to see Postmaster General Jim Farley, posting through the South on one of his periodic junkets (see p. 15). Officially, they went to honor Jefferson's Crawford Williamson Long, first doctor to operate under ether, 98 years ago. At noon, on the village square, the Postmaster General sold a sheaf of new two-cent stamps, bearing the bearded countenance of Dr. Long, to the only survivor of his twelve children-his aged daughter, Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper...
...early 19th Century, shortly after chemists discovered ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas), some medical students went on jags, taking a few whiffs of one drug or the other until half-conscious and happily drunk. In the early 1840s,'dashing young Dr. Long sniffed ether at parties, but was clear-headed enough to notice that his drunken friends, if they came to blows, felt no pain. So one day in 1842, he fearfully soaked a towel in ether, anesthetized a friend before removing a tumor...
Every effort has been made to check the most important characteristic of commercial transmitters -- a large radiation of waves into the ether. Instead, all the radiations have been funneled into the real "network" of the new system, the heating pipes that wind under the University through a labyrinth of tunnels...
...moderate amount such as is contained in one or two cups of coffee . . . heightens the intellectual functions, increases the efficiency of the muscles and lessens the feeling of fatigue. . . . Although alcohol is frequently used as a stimulant, its real effect is to depress the nervous system . . . like ether or chloroform." Those who like liquor ought to save their drinking till night, when they don't have to work or drive a car. Contrary to popular opinion, "mere mixing of good liquors will not cause intoxication...
...Science last week Dr. Ives declared flatly that his experiment "does detect the ether." He admires Einstein's genius, but he is not constrained to think the Master infallible. In a complicated argument, he undertook to show that the relativistic abolition of the ether is based on a mere convention of measurement. Other conventions of measurement could have served just as well, and they could have been based on an ether as a fixed frame of reference...