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Defensive Lassitude. In warm weather or during exercise, the evaporation of sweat does most of the final cooling, but the body cannot produce an unlimited amount of sweat, and if it is forced to do so, there are various ill effects. So the natural reaction of the overheated human is to sit still until his temperature falls. In the long run, this defensive lassitude lowers the cultural level...
...Wulsin describes experiments, some of them for the Army, on how clothes hamper the body in keeping itself cool. They act as insulators, checking heat loss by radiation. More important, they create near the skin a layer of hot, moisture-saturated air. Sweat cannot evaporate until it has soaked through the clothing, and then its cooling effect is largely wasted. Dr. Wulsin ridicules the idea that Europeans in tropical climates should wear helmets and heavy clothing to keep from being felled by the tropical sun. The less clothing they wear, he says, the better off they...
...down before the jury box. At times he laughs, then he sneers, and then he seems to be on the verge of tears; first his voice roars out of the courtroom and echoes through the corridors, then it is a barely audible croon. Before he is through, the sweat is rolling down in rivers on his face and dripping from his chin to the floor. His style has gained him a nickname: "The Terror of Tellico Plains...
Reserves: Jake, Bare, Eel, Ice, Sweat, Nip, Sacks, Bratley, DAR, Royce, Rolls, Corny, Gwitrtzberg, Reaves...
...schedule. Extras die like flies; bit players are allowed to put up a fight; second leads are wounded and nobly keep telling the others to go forward and leave them to perish miserably. But the hero and heroine come through it all with little more than a touch of sweat and a careful smudge on the off-profile...