Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...armed with machetes rushed upon it from an alley. Quick-witted, Senor Diaz leaped out of the left-hand door of his carriage as the men wrenched open the right-hand door. A machete hurtled, split the leather of the President's left heel, bit into his flesh. The coachman, faithful, sprang from his box, fell upon the attackers. Maddened, they felled him, slashed off his hands, his nose, gouged out his eyes. . . . As policemen arrived the two attackers fled, unidentified. President Diaz rushed to the coachman who had saved his life, lifted the man into his carriage, climbed...
...animal or a human, the saliva carrying the virus enters the wound. It often happens that a bite through clothing is not infectious for the simple reason that the mad dog's saliva is wiped off his teeth as they bite; through the clothing. The virus entering the flesh works its way to a nerve where it finds the best medium for proliferating. And as the viri develop they travel up the network of nerves in the animal's, or human's, body to the spinal cord, and eventually to the brain. The virus of rabies...
...influence anybody in any direction." In short he believes, as his final paper on Ethics for social workers shows, in human amelioration under prevailing political, social and economic systems. He is one whose greatest pleasure, short of playing in a stringed quartet, lies in discovering, exhibiting and nourishing warm flesh on the grey bones of platitudes...
...known that ultraviolet light can energize cholesterol and phytosterol (cholesterol is a constituent of animal cells, phytosterol, of plant cells) to behave like Vitamin D as a rickets-preventive. It might be that the ultraviolet light actually created Vitamin D. Vitamins found in milk, cod liver oil and fresh flesh have been supposed to have come ultimately from plants that carried such vitamins...
...football squad during the post season in the conducting of biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron) and lacto-dexterin. And since the Battle Creek College lost only two games of the season's schedule, it as conceded that the experiment was a success...