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...drops will fall on soft, welcoming grass, for space is limited at Wellesley this year, for the Naval Supply School has put a waterproof cover over Cazenove and Pomeroy dorms and no little droplets can get in. So it will be close quarters for the little adorables this year and no single rooms, poor things, but a droplet is a droplet, boys, so lift your fingers high and catch...
...with its mountain of statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics formally brought forth the minutest statistic of the week: from mid-June to mid-July, the cost of living for city workers went down 0.8%. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins emerged from the Cabinet morgue to find this droplet impressive...
...work? Respiratory disease bacteria float about in tiny droplets of water breathed, sneezed and coughed from human beings. The germicidal glycol also floats in infinitesimally small particles. Calculations showed that if droplet had to hit droplet, it would take two to 200 hours for sterilization of sprayed air to take place. Since sterilization took place in seconds, Dr. Robertson concluded that the glycol droplets must give off gas molecules which dissolve in the water droplets and kill the germs within them...
...that these gloves become dangerous to wear after 15 minutes' exposure to mustard-gas vapor. This particular grade of rubber is not only an inadequate protection but even accentuates mustard-gas burns as well as permanently contaminating the rubber itself. Mustard gas is soluble in rubber and a droplet that would produce only a small blister on bare skin may spread through the entire rubber surface, in time, and burn the whole enclosed area...
...brought into play new words, familiar in other fields of science but not so in atomic physics. The splitting of the uranium nucleus is described as a "fission," which, in biology, means division of an organism into two or more parts. The big nucleus has been compared to a "droplet." When a neutron of the right energy strikes it, the new energy is shared by all the components of the nucleus so that the "surface tension" fails to hold it together. Therefore it splits...