Word: radiumized
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...only that he has laughed until he is weak. "Nothing Sacred" is very much like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Miss Lombard is the girl from a small town who goes to New York for the time of her life (although the method of getting her there is fake radium poisoning in this case) and Mr. March is the reporter who sells her to the city and eventually falls in love with here Walter Connolly is the big, blustering newspaper editor concerned with scoops and the glory of his profession. The whole is done in color--good color...
...internal medicine (diagnosis), 2) sur gery, 3) pediatrics (children), 4) obstetrics & gynecology, 5) ophthalmology, 6) otolaryngology. 7) dermatology (skin) & syphilology, 8) psychiatry (mind, emotions) & neurology (nerves), 9) urology (kidney, bladder), 10) orthopedic surgery (bones, muscles), 11) radiology (X ray, radium), 12) pathology (diseased tissue...
Then it occurred to him that perhaps the electrons emitted on earth by cathode ray tubes and radioactive substances might be variable in mass, too. If this tremendous hunch were true, some bothersome discrepancies in the behavior of beta rays (fast electrons) shooting out of radium would be cleared up. Also it would make the concept of the neutrino unnecessary. The neutrino is a hypothetical particle imagined by physicists as a carrier of energy which mysteriously disappears when one element is transmuted into another. If it is assumed that the vanished energy has taken the form of greater mass...
...Jauncey cudgeled his brain for some way to verify experimentally the variable mass of electrons. On December 18 he hit on the idea of passing the electrons from Radium E through a velocity selector, then into a magnetic field. If the particles, selected for uniform velocity, were also of uniform mass, they should be uniformly curved by the field and would strike a photographic film in the same place. By that time the physics department at Washington University was so excited that Jauncey was offered the run of the laboratory and all the help he wanted. He stayed...
...Nothing Sacred" stars Carole Lombard in Ben Hecht's story of the girl who faked radium poisoning so that a New York tabloid would rescue her from Vermont and show her how America lives. If the picture is not as hilarious as advance ballyhoo led everyone to believe, it is because Frederic March takes his part as the obituary editor (and Mr. Hecht's means of de-bunking New York) altogether too seriously...