Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, John Kay rushed out of his office to go to a hospital to visit his wife and newborn child, ran down the hall, dashed through an open elevator door, dropped five floors to his death...
...possibility of utilizing oxygen in the digestive tract. There are known cases (testified by medical observation) of life during 'several hours of the infants, whose lungs on post-mortem examination were found to be absolutely unstraightened." Special significance of this: if an X-ray of a newborn infant shows air in the stomach or bowels, then no matter if the lungs lack air, that infant was born alive...
Soviet science may be laggard in prestige and solidity, * but it is certainly not so in imagination. A report from Moscow's Laboratory for Aviation Medicine last week reminded observers of the conditioning courses for newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...
...pressures, translatable into equivalent heights above sea level. Best performers were guinea pigs and turtles, which got along at the equivalent of 13,000 metres (about 43,000 ft.). Dogs and cats could not hang on long above 12,000 metres, carrier pigeons collapsed at 7,000. Newborn rats and mice, however, which were given no chance to get used to air of normal pressure, survived amazingly in air of .002 of sea level pressure, which corresponds to an altitude of 30 miles. Conclusion was that air pressure requirements are not innate but a matter of conditioning...
...infancy, Spring has captured the heart of Nature and transfused blood into her checks and a sparkle into her motley eyes. Landscapes bleak and foreboding a month past bloom today in green luxuriance. The march of the seasons is indeed inexorable, but what man, confronted with the newborn loveliness of May, will have it otherwise...