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Word: ethers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very name of radio burglar lurks romance. In reading of his mysterious murders to obtain receiving sets, one gets the uncanny impression that he materializes out of the ether and enters by way of the aerial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PERVERTED ARIEL | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

Thought Waves. In Leningrad, Professor Vladimir Behterev, of the Leningrad Academy of Science, claimed great advances in the detection of electro-magnetic waves from the human body. "Thought waves," i. e., ether waves broadcast by the cerebral nerve centres, were alleged to have been received with sensitive apparatus in 70% of the experiments made. Men were said to be better receivers of transmitted thoughts than women. "The more accomplished a man is, the better he transmits and the worse he receives." It was not reported how the thought waves, when detected, were translated from meaningless physical effects into intelligible human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Progress | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868), American, discovered ether for anesthetization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Ones | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

Miller v. Einstein. Conclusions drawn from thousands of "etherdrift" experiments at Mt. Wilson Observatory (10,000 calculations in 1925 alone) were: 1) That, contrary to the assumptions of Dr. Albert Einstein, there is an all pervasive substance in the universe through which all matter moves; 2) That this substance, ether, has a motion imparted to it by moving matter (a motion similar to that of water following the stern of a moving ship). In the case of the earth, the ether is subject to a 95% drag, but slips away again 50%; 3) That the whole solar galaxy (group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Kansas City | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Cardinal Mercier had persistent dyspepsia. There was a lesion of the stomach which a little surgical treatment would put quite to rights. But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether. Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally. Last week he lay on a table calmly watching a scalpel open his torso, calmly discussing with his surgeon such aspects of the human interior as he recalled from the studies made in his youth under famed Dr. Charcot in Pariss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mercier | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

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