Word: oxygenate
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...when the Sumerians spun the tale of a swimmer who sought the weed of eternal life beneath the waves. Down through the centuries, woodcuts show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms, was barely able to drop his weights and make the surface...
...glorious voice!" when the voice stopped, and he turned to see Warren on the floor. He ran onstage as the curtain fell, crying "Lennie, Lennie, what is it? Get back to yourself!" While Baritone Osie Hawkins attempted mouth-to-mouth respiration, the Met's house physician sent for oxygen from the first-aid room...
...final day against Czechoslovakia, the exhausted U.S. team was trailing 4-3 when it got a surprise assist. Russian Captain Nikolai Sologubov, who speaks no English, approached Coach Riley, gestured as if he were gasping, then mimed putting on an oxygen mask. Riley got the hint. He procured an oxygen bottle, gave Bob Cleary and his weary-legged mates a whiff. They promptly rallied for six goals and a 9-4 victory, skated off with the first U.S. gold medal in hockey. When the game was done, the man they mobbed was Goalie Jack McCartan, the sub who had become...
...pole's winter air at this altitude is warmer than that over New Mexico in midsummer (75° C.). Last week Dr. Will Kellogg of Rand Corp. told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Geophysical Union that this paradoxical warmth comes from the recombination of broken oxygen molecules...
...Kellogg explained that when the sun's radiation hits the atmosphere 75 miles above the earth, it breaks up many two-atom molecules of oxygen into separate atoms. The air is so thin at that level that the lonely oxygen atoms can seldom get together and reunite to form normal molecules. When the long darkness of winter creeps over the north polar region, an area of abnormally low pressure develops at 30 to 40 miles elevation. It sucks air down from above, and with the air come oxygen atoms that were brought to the pole by the circulation...