Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the fundamental postulates of Einstein that ether does not exist and that gravity is not a force, but a property of space, are crazy vagaries, disgraceful in a scientific age, and repudiated by the Paris Academy of Sciences and by reputable German scholars...
...Eifel Tower broadcasting station was opening with the first strains of a concert of classical music when a Yankee voice remarked: " Classical music is no good. Let me give you some real music." Then the ether was shattered with Casey Jones. The police are after the joker and have already determined " approximately" where he lives. The gendarmes describe him as having " a disjointed sense of humor...
...anaesthetic having many advantages over ether, chloroform or nitrous oxide (laughing gas), has been developed by Dr. A. B. Laukhardt and J. P. Carter, of the physiology department of the University of Chicago, from ethylene gas, one of the ingredients of coal gas. When purified it has absolutely no effect upon the heart action, say its sponsors. The danger of lung abscesses or pneumonia, attendant on the use of laughing gas, is minimized with the new formula. Patients can be revived immediately by administering oxygen...
Sixty people fainted when Ricardo Thanorro carried an open can of ether on a Manhattan subway train, " to cure his cold...
...said handle the forefinger of a saint, but glass cases stand between us and the ancient treasures like the impassable ether between Heaven and Hell. There they are, the immortals; Chaucer: the magistrates arresting John Bunyan (see, they present the warrant to him now): Cromwell somewhere behind his death mask (we feel secretly glad that he is, indeed, dead); and many others vaguely peeping through the pages of books. Did you know that the fastidious John Dryden was once a boy, went to a grammar school, actually scrawled his name in a Greek copy book with large letters...