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...doctors also reported an indirect benefit. Moist hot packs have been the standard treatment for polio pain. Besides being messy, packs keep the nurses overworked. With the drug, nurses can spend more time on other ways of making their patients more comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain & Polio | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Princetonian didn't really have to mention the plant, since undergraduates guessed that it was there anyhow. On days when the wind is southeasterly, and the weather damp, Princeton men have found that a moist handkerchief over the nose is a distinct help in getting about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fertilizer Factory Fumes Nauseate Nassau Nostrils | 4/21/1950 | See Source »

...Moist Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Water Shortage Here . . . College Buildings Float on It | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

...said, he was just going to --. But he found himself introduced to the lanky girl, and asked her to dance. The loudspeaker leaked "It's Magic." They exchanged names and information about home towns, fields of concentration, and then danced silently for a long time. Stealthily, Vag wiped his moist palms between each dance. She did too. Finally the girl asked Vag what time it was and said she was supposed to meet a friend. Would he excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 3/2/1950 | See Source »

...Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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