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...Mens sana in corpore sana;" cleanliness is next to godliness, and the shower room is next to Ward 3. And what a shower! We believe (and who will disagree?) it is impossible to overstress the importance of perfection in shower fixtures. This shower is just like a woman, one moment hot, the next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Great Unwashed | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

...which are traveling toward the earth, cause a slight disintegration of the nuclei of the atoms of a substance through which they pass. The collision of a high speed electron with the nucleus knocks electrons out of it. The precipitation of these minute nuclear particles is known as a "shower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists Conducting Research on Cosmic Rays And Their Relation to Nuclear Disintegration | 3/17/1934 | See Source »

...research men will endeavor to find out the size of the nuclei of a given material by the frequency of the showers. If it is possible to determine the number of particles contained in one shower, the scientists consider it likely that they will be able to learn much in regard to the properties of these precipitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists Conducting Research on Cosmic Rays And Their Relation to Nuclear Disintegration | 3/17/1934 | See Source »

...speed electrons, which enter our atmosphere from space. Millikan holds that photons, which also enter our atmosphere from without but unlike the electrons leave no trace of their passage, collide with the nuclei of inolecules in the air and cause a certain amount of disintegration of those nuclei. A shower would then be produced similar to those of the high speed electrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists Conducting Research on Cosmic Rays And Their Relation to Nuclear Disintegration | 3/17/1934 | See Source »

...Socialists they had no means of spreading their call, since their newspaper had been suppressed. Without means of quick communication, without leadership, the Socialists had little chance, but they tried to make up in fierceness what they lacked in organization. They met the vanguard of marching police with a shower of hand grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Dollfuss on the Danube | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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