Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder was that no one had thought of it before. Its originator (an engineer) got the idea when an accidental explosion embedded oil droplets in a victim's flesh without marking his skin. The implement was later perfected by a group at R. P. Scherfer Corp., Detroit...
...certain natural satisfaction in his prowess and may even decide that he is helping create a better world. He is encouraged in this by the fact that society seldom pays any attention; society, in fact, seldom hears the sound of scuffling, the grunts and the thud of fist on flesh...
...science to give it an authentic face. He first considered dissecting corpses and measuring the average thickness of tissue on modern human faces. But he found that the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Wilton M. Krogman had done the job already, establishing the average thickness of face flesh at 15 points...
...brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...
...Saratoga, owners of fancier horse flesh, worth $5,000,000 or more, were nervous if not panicky. Some 25 horses which had been vanned in from New England in the past month were checked twice a day. At week's end Saratoga closed without a case of swamp fever; but not until frost, said the vets, can horse owners in the northeastern U.S. breathe easily...