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...Easier Motherhood" describes synergistic anaesthesia by the Gwathmey technic. Known to medicine for about a decade, it consists of the specialized administration of magnesium sulphate, ether and morphine combined in a dose suited to the individual. Extensively and very successfully used in Manhattan hospitals, it has, says Author Todd, "'converted crying rooms into chambers of silence." Yet so little is it appreciated among obstetricians generally that in the last five years it is estimated only two-tenths of one per-'cent of U. S. mothers have experienced its benefits...
...music spoke so eloquently that Sunday afternoon that members of the small audience told their friends. No one, according to some, had ever played Bach like Gieseking, and they rhapsodized over an amazing technic, a style that was as fluent and easy as it was immaculate. But his Bach, others said, could not compare with his Debussy which surely was the essence of poetry. The controversy, as over most artistic matters, might have been endless, for Gieseking is not a specialist...
...been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance to the debut of another pupil, Benno Rabinof. Eight years ago he had taken him, a prodigy of Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives...
...grade, the Gillette coal is a sub-bituminous kind called black lignite-tough, deliquescent, easily crumbled when exposed to air, when it also tends to combust spontaneously. Storage of it requires a special technic, but since one-third of its weight is water it is cheaply shipped after treatment. Valuable by-products result and the coal itself-or some like it-has been found serviceable in specially built locomotives, by the C. B. & Q. and the Chicago & Northwestern R. R.'s Much of the Gillette field is owned by the U. S., which can lease it under the mineral...
Insisting on the distinction between a true architect and someone else, and impressing upon architects that theirs is an Art as well as a technic, were the convention keystones. To stress the Art of building, the Institute has enrolled representatives of arts with which the architect must ally his work to obtain unity of effect?sculpture, mural painting, landscape-architecture, etc. (TIME, April...