Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than to the anesthetic. If the highly specialized cells of the brain are deprived of their essential oxygen too long, irreparable damage may result. Such after-effects are not confined to Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen, as they may and do follow the use of other anesthetic agents, for example, ether as mentioned in the report. Destruction of the brain cells may occur as a result of asphyxia without anesthesia...
Nightly the European ether is filled with rival government propaganda in the form of distorted news broadcasts. Save only France, every Continental power engages in this practice of poisoning men's minds. Because even so far away as New Zealand British citizens are fed honeyed. anti-British words from Berlin and Rome, Great Britain fortnight ago decided to supply an antidote. It announced that British Broadcasting Corporation would begin to send out "straight news" in seven languages to undeceive misinformed mankind...
...carried to incredible lengths, the Mayos got results that no single independent surgeon had ever been able to obtain. All this is very good. But when one thinks that the doctors, all their life, do only one thing, more or less circumscribed -the anesthetizers, for example, who only administer ether, and so on-one thinks again (such is the insidious association of ideas) of the Armour & Company butchers in Chicago, of those expert amputators of horns, hoofs, and ears, good fellows all, but who, outside of their little specialty, can do nothing else...
...circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept a dark secret long after the red and grey plane left Moscow. Then a Canadian radio station plucked the news from the ether that: "We are three hours from the Pole, flying nicely...
...miles from the Palace to the Abbey and return. Into a central control room at Broadcasting House, through 472 miles of wire and twelve tons of equipment, poured a Babel of sounds-trumpets, cheers, tramping, coughs, prayers, commentaries-to be sifted and unified, put on the world's ether waves. In the Abbey alone were 30 microphones-one of them, supersensitive, was hung high in the vaulted roof over the chancel-to catch every syllable of the historic service. Radio officials later estimated that 83% of the world's potential radio audience listened in at all hours...