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...person resting in still, humid air is comfortable until the temperature reaches 90° F.; a light breeze lets him stay so until 95°. However if he is working his muscles he feels discomfort at 80°. At 100° a man can do four times as much work if the air is dry (humidity 30) than if it were saturated (humidity 100). With humidity at the ordinary 60, the subjects did five times more work at 90° than...
...pictures. The absence of shifting scenes and the great range of situations gives an advantage, that the legitimate stage cannot hope to rival. Moreover, a judicious use of the camera makes it easily possible to look at the various scenes from a great variety of interesting angles without the discomfort of having to crane one's neck beyond the sides of the corpulent lady that always sits in the next...
...drive to the Capitol and recommend, before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures, the transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...
...death rate from inhaling coal dust may not be as great as the death rate from taking poison or being shot, but the discomfort and dirt caused by our very smoky city is visible on every hand. Ask those who come in contact every day with the nuisance caused by too much smoke. Ask the women folk, who know more about it and talk more about it than the males...
...High blood pressure is," he continued, "the source of more disability and death in middle aged and elderly people than any other condition. It creeps on the individual without giving and warning of discomfort...