Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wet Bulb...
TIME promises, in response to the queries of Reader Combs [TIME, Sept. 5], to keep its weather eye open for an interpretation of the weather in terms of its effect on humans. One very simple step in the direction of such interpretation would be the publication of wet bulb thermometer readings...
...many people know, a wet bulb thermometer is a thermometer whose bulb is surrounded by a knitted cotton tube, with its end dipped in water which keeps the bulb moist. In a draft (about three feet per second or over) evaporation reduces the temperature, and from the amount of such reduction and the reading of the dry bulb thermometer the humidity is computed...
...perspiring human on a hot day approximates quite closely the condition of the wet bulb. He finds a draft, if possible, and if the day be humid he gets little relief from the draft, and suffers accordingly...
...Come here at once, and don't sidle up to me like a hog going to war." my mother used to say to me, soap in one hand, a wet cloth in the other...