Word: droplet
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...They take rides in the millions of tiny droplets that are sprayed from the mouth or nose when people cough, sneeze, laugh, sing or talk in a forcible manner. Scientific experiment has proven that droplets may be carried by air currents from a room downstairs to a room upstairs. Thus 'droplet infection...
Last week jaded Gothamites sweated, many publicly collarless, others privately naked. In front of a cell-like apartment house one Garth Anderson, Negro, 23, sat dull-eyed, knowing not, caring less that Miss Josephine Smith, 20, white, likewise exuded many a salty droplet some miles away. Languor fell upon them. They sighed, yawned-screamed with fearful pain until summoned surgeons set their respectively dislocated jaws...