Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curve of each eyeball. Tears float slowly over the eyeballs and drain into the nose and throat through two holes at the inner corner of each eye. Ordinarily this flow & drainage of tears is imperceptible, and serves simply to keep the eyeballs clean and slippery. But dirt or stinging stuff in the eyes makes those glandular reservoirs suddenly empty in a protective local reflex. The excess causes weeping, sniffling and gulping, for hard crying produces more tears than the tear ducts can carry off, and the excess overflows the lower eyelids onto the cheeks. This phenomenon has been occurring...
Apologists for tear gas, like President John W. Young of Pittsburgh's Federal Laboratories who introduced the stuff to industrial use,* argue that it causes no harm, only a temporary weeping. Last week the American Medical Journal gave them...
...returned his questionnaire blank except for the cryptic remark that he was ashamed to be associated with a class which distributed such "stuff" remains the hero of the piece. Questionnaires are harmless articles, fun to fill out. They only become dangerous instruments when taken too seriously...
From afar a tomeat ye-owls sympathetically. The boys stuff cotton into their cars and try to concentrate on their notes...
...High-speed tunnels, spinning tunnels, atmospheric tunnels, variable-density tunnels and propeller research tunnels are old stuff. This year two more were added to the list-a freeflight tunnel and a gust tunnel...