The discovery of nutritive air is still in the future, but in the meantime men today consume food that is compounded and prepared according to scientific principles, and they breathe an atmosphere freed from the micro- organisms that formerly used to swarm in it; hence they live longer than their forefathers and know nothing of the innumerable diseases of olden times. "In the Year 2889" by Jules Verne and Michel Verne

My friend said it had a capacity of 250 micro- micro farads, which meant absolutely nothing to me at the time. "The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece A Personal View" by Norman F. Joly

There are three distinct phases to the " scrubbing up": First, the three- minute scrubbing of the hands and forearms with a clean brush and green soap; to be followed by, second, the trimming and cleaning of the finger nails, for it is here, under the nails, that the micro- organism lives and thrives that causes child- bed fever or septicemia; and, third, the final five- minute scrubbing of the fingers, hands, and forearms. "The Mother and Her Child" by William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler