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...delivers a nonexplosive mixture of cyclopropane, oxygen and helium. Patients thus anesthetized have had fractures set, babies delivered by high forceps, and kidneys removed. Dr. Hingson has made it work at 12,000 ft. in the Andes, and medical student volunteers have used it as an inhalator to escape noxious gases...
Devil's Work. When night fell, 261 miners were still entombed. Perhaps that first day some still clung to life in small holes and alcoves, somehow fending off the flames, floods and noxious gases from the fires high above them. No one knew. Above ground, great searchlights showed up huddles of women now too tired to weep, their babies asleep with their toys. "Coal Mining! Not even the devil would do it!" one old man croaked hoarsely, when morning broke once more across Belgium's Bitter Heart...
Would that we had a man of his drive to protest our own gross and grievous tax injustices. No less than in France, we need a leader to spearhead concerted revolt against the onerous, noxious, outrageous tax burden imposed...
...noxious elements in the amendment have not been eliminated, however. According to the present proposal, if a treaty conflicts with "any provision of" the Constitution, it is not of force and effect. If interpreted strictly, the "any provision of" clause could narrowly constrict treaty-making powers to those specifically stated in the Constitution, a very serious limitation in the face of an intricate world situation...
Although efforts to eliminate the noxious odors during the Jubilee were unsuccessful, University slouths, including an official "sniffer," had located and eliminated most of the chemical-laden objects by Monday...