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Word: skin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appetite and a short deep scar? in his cheek, Manager Robinson, 66, has worked at baseball every summer for 50 years. He caught for the Baltimore "Orioles" when John McGraw played for them. Once a pitched ball broke one of his fingers, left it hanging by a thread of skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Last week Molly Pitcher was home again in the pigeon hospital at Fort Monmouth. Said Thomas Ross: ''She's just a pitiful little handful of skin and bones and she hasn't got many feathers left but she's coming along. She'll fly again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Molly Pitcher | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Arthur Newton ran 20 miles a day to keep training. He wore leather socks next his skin. Every hour he drank a half-pint glass of lemonade containing eight teaspoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and cracked ice. Other records: London to Brighton?5 hr. 53 min. 43 sec., 1924; 100 mi. at Bulawayo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: South Africa's Newton | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

Charge: Animals inoculated with BCG react to the tuberculin skin test, indication of the presence of tuberculosis germs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis Debate | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat and salt water, filtered the concoction. This macerated residue he injected under the patient's skin. Quickly she recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viper Heads | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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