Word: drier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come far but changed little. He is, as he likes to repeat, a man of the common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where it is higher, drier. There he punched cows, hunted, fished, slept under the stars. Outdoor life brought him a robust, ruddy-cheeked vitality he has never lost. Nights he began reading law, at 21 was admitted to the Texas bar at Uvalde. For a while he was a local judge, then went...
Dissipation of the body manufactured heat depends on the surroundings. The drier the air the more moisture-bound heat it can absorb. The faster the air moves the faster can it carry heat from the body. But if the air is hot, humid and still, the body must struggle to throw off heat. The harder it struggles, the harder the heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed...