Word: jennison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fitzwilliam, N.H., Sheriff Arthur Jennison's lugubrious-looking bloodhound, Queenie, galumphed steadily through the night, led a baffled search party straight to bushes in which its elusive quarry was sitting. The quarry: three-year-old Louis Dunton, who had left home, taken off his clothes and wandered through the woods for six hours...
...runs a physiologist's description of a sneeze. But such words pale before a sneeze's peppery reality. Last week Professor Marshall Walker Jennison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took high-speed, stop-motion photographs of this complicated phenomenon. His findings: 1) every spasm expels thousands of droplets, 250th of an inch in diameter, heavy with millions of germs; 2) human "muzzle velocity" runs as high as 150 feet a second, nearly two miles a minute...