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Word: fleshed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fragments of skin and flesh will be sent to Lee Wyman of Boston University to determine the blood grouping of the corpse, said Kidder. He also pointed out that the legs show traces of blue paint which will be analyzed to determine the pigment used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Mummy Rapidly Disintegrates As Archeology Students Remove Moldy Wrapping | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

...young Mussolini. He is not only a gentleman but a very good fighter." The duel lasted as long as the aviators' ammunition held out (22 minutes) and afterward, unscathed Duelist Dickinson & friends counted 326 bullet holes in his plane. He received word that Duelist Mussolini had sustained a flesh wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Duel | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...SOUND OF ROWLOCKS-Wilbur Daniel Steele-Harper ($2.50). First detective novel of prolific Author Steele, best known for his short stories. The Sound of Rowlocks achieves a happy balance between a novel and the conventional detective story. Faced with the problem of presenting flesh-&-blood characters as pawns in a chess puzzle, most writers satisfy neither the novel reader nor the mystery addict. But Wilbur Daniel Steele does well by both. Background and atmosphere are authentic; the characters are clear but not overdeveloped; the plot is ingenious, well-planned, addict-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...harder than any others he ever felt. Someone told him that these were the famed deer botflies. The scientist estimated that if the flies were traveling at 800 m.p.h. the force of the impact would amount to 310 pounds and that they would penetrate deeply into human flesh- whereas, in reality, they bounced off the skin after the collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Botfly Debunked | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...University of Vienna reported that they spread out a frog's tongue until it was very thin, and kept it in that shape by lacing it to a U-shaped glass rod. This arrangement enabled them to see and prove that ultrashort waves heat only the flesh and do not alter the blood vessels of that part of the body exposed to them, and that the electricity produces no effect other than that of pure heat, an important fact for physiotherapists to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electric Heating | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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