Word: gauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soothe the pains of child-birth was Dr. James Young Simpson (1811-70) of Edinburgh. In 1847 he used chloroform. Doctors and ministers denounced him for interfering with God's will. Dr. Simpson persisted and died rich, knighted and famed. In 1913 Drs. Bernard Kronig & Carl J. Gauss of Freiburg, Germany, invented twilight sleep, which they induced by injecting a combination of morphine and scopolamine into a woman who was about to have a baby. Lapsing into a dreamy state, the mother knows what is going on but feels little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature...
...Gauss twilight sleep and Gwathmey synergy and proposed other combinations of drugs to dull labor's pangs. The doctors who rendered reports were enthusiastic about results...
...momentary magnetic field of high power. Next he designed a huge dynamo to provide the short-circuiting power. With this the coils blew up. Kapitza stopped that by chilling the coils with liquid helium ( −270° C.). Finally he was able to produce magnetic fields of 320,000 gauss, five times as intense as any previously created...
Harvard goes back to Nassau Hall today and Sage's heart is glad. Have just dined with Princeton's Dean--Mrs. Gauss thinks Tigers a cinch, but game has all the Marks of a Harvard win, and I Gauss Crimson will a Maser by garnering the Bliss of victory. Harlow will not Husband his strength, and if Crisler Wood win he will need more than one Sandbach to block the holes. Even if a Constable aPierson the Field, he will be a Marter in a losing cause. Tigers will Spring and try to Chew the White hopes from Cambridge...
President Conant will travel to Princeton early next month to speak at the Tiger Phi Beta Kappa dinner Friday evening, March 15. President Dodds and Dean Gauss of Princeton will also speak at the occasion which is to honor Seniors and Juniors who have just been elected to membership...