Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed, the case of a human being who parted with 60% of her body and lived to tell the tale. During the first month she lost twelve pounds, in 20 months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
...good idea is to give one to yourself as a present and save yourself the fuss and bother of brushes and lather and the troublesome nicks from razor blades. The new electric razors are easy on your skin as well as on your budget...
From the lyrical description of "Saltwater Farm," Coffin has turned to a portrayal of those Maine people who "still live by the skin of their teeth, on wind-pudding and small potatoes and few on a hill. They live by the weather and their wits. They come to sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic...
Odets does not encase this eternal situation in the snug, tight frame of the well-made Broadway "domestic drama.'' Heaving, racked, volcanic, the play belches the hot subterranean lava of its characters' anger, helplessness, pain. It draws back their skin to leave every nerve exposed. In its best scenes Rocket to the Moon is blisteringly real, its dialogue forks and spits like lightning from a scornful...
...Tanning," concluded the scientists, formulating in Science last week a convincing explanation of the action of sunlight on the skin, "may be a 'photographic-like process' of 'exposure' and 'development,' with the sex hormone acting to 'develop' color-lacking material laid down in the skin by exposure [to the sun]. . . . This 'developing' action may be exerted as late as five months after exposure...