Kate Moore

  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    People hailed its coming as predicted in the Bible: “The sun of righteousness [shall] arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth and gambol as calves of the stall.”
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    Katherine had seen advertisements for one of the most successful products, a radium-lined jar to which water could be added to make it radioactive: wealthy customers drank it as a tonic; the recommended dose was five to seven glasses a day
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    On sale were radium jockstraps and lingerie, radium butter, radium milk, radium toothpaste (guaranteeing a brighter smile with every brushing) and even a range of Radior cosmetics, which offered radium-laced face creams, soap, rouge, and compact powders.
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation was expanding massively, and the new site comprised several buildings, all located in the middle of a residential neighborhood
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    The dial-painters glowed even brighter from the radium against the dark windows: a workshop of shining spirits laboring through the night
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    When radium poisoning is made a compensable disease, if ever, it would not be retroactive; so that, as far as these girls were concerned, nothing could be done.”
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    Around the time he studied with the Curies, Pierre was heard to remark that “he would not care to trust himself in a room with a kilo of pure radium, as it would burn all the skin off his body, destroy his eyesight, and probably kill him
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    “Radium, once deposited in bone,” wrote Drinker in his report, “would be in a position to produce peculiarly effective damage, many thousand times greater than the same amount outside.”
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    Von Sochocky himself had suffered its silent and sinister wrath: radium had got into his left index finger and, when he realized, he hacked the tip of it off
  • Anna Chasovikovaцитируетв прошлом году
    Radium was what one might call a boneseeker, just like calcium; and the human body is programmed to deliver calcium straight to the bones to make them stronger
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