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...enjoys U. S. slang, asked particularly whether the phrase "cold feet" had changed meaning since 1927 when he was last in the U. S. (honeymooning with his second wife, who again accompanied him last week). Then Senator Marconi told what he has learned about the curious behavior of minute ether waves...
...Laboring mothers should not plead with their doctors for a completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
Valerian is a cheesy-smelling sedative prepared from an herb root. Last year chemists compounded it with zinc or ammonia, loaded the mixture with ether, sealed it in glass thermos bottles. About five months ago Chicago thugs, hired by racketeering labor unionists, began smashing such thermos bottles inside factories and showrooms. When the highly volatile ether spreads through the room, bearing molecules of the valerian compound, the compound penetrates carpets, garments, walls, floors. Overwhelming is its lasting stench...
...dissolved in one million times their volume of water, and can do this with just two drops of the solution. It can detect the relative amounts of almost identical substances in a mixture, as fumaric and maleic acids. It can detect minute traces of poisonous adulterants of alcohol and ether, natural and synthetic vinegar, normal and abnormal urine. Professor Heyrovsky, who has been working with and refining the polarograph for a decade, declares it quicker, more sensitive, more accurate than any other method of analysis...
...development of a more critical spirit among educated young men than at any other time since the Progressive movement of two decades ago. Apparently, if the major parties wish to retain the allegiance of the rising generation of voters, at least one of them must become more progressive than ether has been in recent years. -The Alumni Bulletin...