Word: ion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village of Palmagyu, Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money. Had they not just seen what the money devil could do to a strong man? Ion Gerghuta, their neighbor and a thrifty farmer, had come back from the town of Kronstadt with his crop money?...
...went to get a drink. His six-year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water. Ion Gerghuta's wife...
...Sussanne Winghardy, rivals for the favor of a stalwart young Budapestian, repaired to a clearing in a secluded wood near the city. A friend went with them, carrying a long green baize bag. Soon the clearing echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy shoulder...
That the blood of cancerous people is less acid than the blood of normal people is well-known. A proper balance between hydrogen (acid) ions and hydroxyl (alkaline) ions is essential to health and normal cell growth. Too much alkalinity lets cells grow wild. That is one reason why radium and x-rays are used to treat cancer. They make blood acidulous. If doctors could easily and quickly tell the blood's hydrogen ion strength, they could use proper therapeutic means to prevent and treat cancer...
...depends on the fact that fluids (like blood) conduct electricity more or less easily according to their hydrogen ion concentration. But the differences in conductivity between good and bad blood are very slight. So the University of Pennsylvania researchers were obliged to amplify with radio tubes the weak current that blood can carry and invent a precision voltometer that shows 400 gradations between zero and one volt. The turning of a few switches shows the exact blood condition...