Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fundamental mistake of Western man. says Lin Yutang. is his attempt to find out where the spirit begins and the flesh leaves off. Having abandoned a missionary's career when he saw this fallacy, Author Lin now regards any attempt to separate the two as "confusing, unintelligible and untrue." "Happiness for me," he says, "is largely a matter of digestion. ... I would prefer pork to poetry, and would waive a piece of philosophy for a piece of filet...
...reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon the blade was turned upon himself, pushed down, entering the flesh above the right eye and plunging two inches into the frontal lobe of a brain that had been, until that instant, as powerful, creative, original, as any in the history of English literature...
...collected about these children can be used to prove that individuality is due to heredity. The data can also prove that individuality is due to environment. . . ." Whereupon, the child-students proceeded to Callander, where through glass and wire mesh, they could see Y-A-C-E-M in the flesh...
...substances cause scars. The blockade also prevents the free flow of lymph to the site of the wound. Lymph, in some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs. If, as in an inflamed wound, it cannot reach invading germs the instant they touch the raw flesh, the germs swiftly get into the blood stream where the lymph can do no good and the blood serum must perform all the germicidal work by itself...
Radiations & Flesh. To guard against injury from radiations in the vicinity of the cyclotron, Dr. Lawrence's crew carry small electroscopes in their pockets which they discharge into a meter at the end of the working day to see how much radiation they have been exposed to. Since neutrons cannot be controlled by magnetic fields and slide easily through almost all substances except those rich in hydrogen, Dr. Lawrence moved the control panel 60 ft. away from the apparatus and surrounded the machine with tanks of water six feet high, three feet thick (every water molecule contains two neutron...