Word: oxygenate
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...long the silver speck in the sky, now vanishing, now swimming into sight again miles away, had most of Europe agog. It was staying up too long! Evidently it could not come down! There was said to be oxygen supply for only ten hours, and here it was 15 hours already. Piccard and Kipfer must be floating, like Mahomet in his coffin, dead in the middle...
...Bethlehem's Charles Michael Schwab. He opened the proceedings with a magnificent piece of the optimism for which he is famed. Then Mr. Farrell got up and began "... I was thinking as I was sitting in the chair here whether I ought to talk about the desulphurization of oxygen or have something to say about the present price of billets. The latter appealed...
...boiling hardens eggs. Bromides and thiocyanates thin out the proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated temporarily when flying at high altitudes. There is a height for each aviator above which it is not safe...
...Temperature of the sun (12,000° F. on the surface, perhaps millions within) is so great that it was believed that elements could not exist there in molecules or compounds, only as free atoms. Henry Norris Russell (Princeton) reported spectographic discovery of seven solar compounds of hydrogen, four of oxygen, and three of other elements. Sun compounds are not stable as earth's. On earth an oxygen atom holds two hydrogen atoms and makes a molecule. On the sun the oxygen holds only one hydrogen atom, and they are ever ready to sunder...
Four doctors were in the sick room, including Dr. George David Stewart, in whose name Mr. Baker had created a $1,000,000 surgery endowment at New York University. An oxygen tank was ready but it was never used. Mr. Baker's pneumonia grew worse. At 6 o'clock Dr. Stewart left and gloomily told the Death Watch that Mr. Baker could not last the night. The afternoon newspapermen left. Four reporters were still damning the cold night and the lack of a shelter when Mr. Baker's secretary summoned them into the house and announced that the aged financier...