Word: masks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
...visitors were amazed to see a ship's officer standing on deck, a large rubber muzzle covering his nose, a large rubber doughnut surrounding his mouth, a limp rubber bag hanging on his chest. It was Dr. Richmond Goulden, ship's surgeon, who was modeling an oxygen mask for seasickness, invented by Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Boothby tried the new invention on four seasick passengers during the Lady Nelson's 30-day trip to British Guiana and back. It gave complete relief to three, partial relief to a fourth...
...merciful mask is held in place by straps fitting around the head, has two hollow tubes starting at each side of the nosepiece and curving clown to the chin, where they join a larger tube which runs to an oxygen bag connected with an oxygen tank. The mask permits a passenger to eat, talk and smoke while he inhales the soothing oxygen. The whole business, explained Dr. Boothby, is not as uncomfortable as it looks...
...They simply attached a five-quart breathing bag filled with pure oxygen to the patient's face, gradually ran out the oxygen and substituted nitrogen. The patient went into convulsions, but when the physicians thought the symptoms had reached a crucial point, they reintroduced pure oxygen into the mask. Five schizophrenic patients have received nitrogen treatment, said the doctors, and "the results are encouraging...
Fortunately the facts are against these defeatists. In an article in yesterday's issue of Harvard's Military Science magazine it was stated that "there is still no gas yet devised which can penetrate in lethal quantities the U.S. Army gas mask of 1921." And if such a gas were to appear, an antidote mask would follow on its heels. Current wars are daily proving that bombing raids only serve to strengthen the morale they attempt to crush and that the enemy's armies, not his cities, are war objectives. The next Great War may be greater in scope than...