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...Novarum. Originally the Pope had intended to bring Rerum Novarum up to date in an encyclical of his own. Instead, he decided to speak directly by radio to that "worldwide Catholic meeting" made possible by "this most expedite bridge which the inventive genius of our age throws across the ether in a flash." The Pope declared his purpose "to give some further directive moral principles and three fundamental values of social and economic life: the use of material goods, labor, and the family." He gave them in a series of powerful assertions...
...subject, Salter claims the Encyclopedia Britannica makes ten errors. Hypnotism was used in the early 19th Century to produce anesthesia for childbirth and surgery. Just when hypnotists were developing their techniques, and learning a little about the minds which they influenced, the anesthetic uses of chloroform and ether were discovered. So hypnosis, chloroformed, sank into a deep, troubled sleep...
Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...
Encirclement via Ether. An R.A.F. reconnaissance plane flying as far as Bengasi saw an interesting but sobering sight on Benina airfield, eleven miles from Bengasi: drawn up, wing to wing and nose to tail, were at least 100 Junkers transport planes. Each plane was big enough to carry 25 men. In Greece transports like these had been used to land field artillery and armored cars behind the British lines...
...learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other's minds," "experiment" in hypnosis, ether-sniffing and allied presexual sports. Their relationship is an unconscious parody of every style in love from "the scientific attitude" through "I-can-take-it" fiction. When they buy a canoe-on money Harriet stole from her father-their real troubles begin. The trouble is over River Rats...