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Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
...adventurers got up into the crypt, but couldn't locate the bulb. After groping in the gloom frantically for the string, they got desperate. On top of this, each was heavily burdened with a tripod and a pair of binoculars...
...perspiring human on a hot day approximates quite closely the condition of the wet bulb. He finds a draft, if possible, and if the day be humid he gets little relief from the draft, and suffers accordingly...
...give an example or two: consider a day where the ordinary dry bulb thermometer reads 86°, and the relative humidity is 93%. The wet bulb temperature would...
Consider another day when the dry bulb temperature is 102° but the relative humidity is only 47%. The wet bulb temperature would again be approximately 84°, and the victim would suffer no more than on the first day in spite of the fact that the temperature is 18° higher...