Word: radiumator
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Because the world's 1½ Ib. of radium is worth some $1,500,000 an ounce and because radium can cause incurable burns, every time a tiny capsule of radium or a tiny needle-like tube of radium emanation is thrown away with a patient's dressing, sent to the laundry with towels or, on rare occasions, left inside a patient, every soul connected with the loss frantically searches for the missing stuff. Last week Britain's National Physical Laboratory offered such radium hunters a small, efficient radium locater. Sensitive to the electromagnetic gamma rays which...
...cold substances which gravitation pulled into a tight little planetary mass somewhere between 50 million and two billion years ago. Ever since, radioactive elements in Earth's material have been driving energy towards its centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other heavy elements 4,000 miles in diameter surrounded by a rocky shell 2,000 miles thick. As eons pass, "the persistent release of atomic forces continue, and will continue to supply heat and melt the surrounding shell with the result that Mother Earth may eventually take her place...
...those magnitudes is due, all insurance men agree, to Dr. Hoffman's analyses of vital statistics and studies of the various things that kill insurable human beings. He has published some 1,200 articles, pamphlets and books on vital statistics, occupational diseases, tropical mortality, leprosy, capital punishment, tuberculosis, radium poisoning. He reads five newspapers each day and an uncounted number of magazines and books. From his library in Prudential's Newark headquarters he has given 100,000 books to the Army Medical School at Washington, lesser numbers to Harvard's Business School, Yale, Lehigh, University of Rotterdam...
...chorus shone in the radium number making unusual effects with painted hands. As burlesque queens, they also were convincing and their stomachs are bound to amuse audiences...
...Hunt, as Dean Bounce, made University Hall consistently more cheerful than it is reported to be under its present staff, though possibly, the Pudding Dean cannot manage a bender with quite the incumbent grace. Gaspar Bacon, as Yankee Joe, brought forth great admiration for his clever dancing in the radium paint number. Mrs. Murphy or Lawrence Nichols dominated one scene, with her irrepressible joviality. Mrs. Murphy is a goodie. Anderson Page fills the role of the villain capably by completely deserting his own personality...