Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret of the body's resistance to heat is its own cooling system (perspiration). Moisture evaporating from the skin surrounds exposed parts of the body with an envelope of cooler air. With the hotbox at 236°, for instance, the air ¾ in. from the nose is 226°. The skin of the nose itself is at a safe 119.5°. Air drawn into the nostrils is cooled down so much that it does not damage the lungs. The general temperature of the body rises only a couple of degrees...
...Blythewood sanatorium in Greenwich, Conn. He is also a lecturer at Yale's School of Alcohol Studies and an admirer of Alcoholics Anonymous. Like many another psychiatrist, he had long wondered what mysterious power enables A.A. to reform alcoholics when psychiatry fails. He has decided that the secret of A.A.'s success is the alcoholics' surrender to a higher power. And Dr. Tiebout has figured out a psychiatrist's explanation...
...survey, was not to discover secret weapons, Steinbeck explained. "We didn't meet a single high official and it was our aim not to, for all we wanted was to study the people...
...secret disclosed by the poll were framed and hung over the writing desk of every women about to select gifts for a Harvard undergraduates, it would read: "Don't overlook the obvious...
...that," put in the Director, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny...