Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old boy was hit by a truck in Indianapolis. The skin of his ankle was so badly flayed and crushed that surgeons prepared to amputate the foot...
...internal medicine (diagnosis), 2) sur gery, 3) pediatrics (children), 4) obstetrics & gynecology, 5) ophthalmology, 6) otolaryngology. 7) dermatology (skin) & syphilology, 8) psychiatry (mind, emotions) & neurology (nerves), 9) urology (kidney, bladder), 10) orthopedic surgery (bones, muscles), 11) radiology (X ray, radium), 12) pathology (diseased tissue...
...Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter may, anywhere, any time, startle any man into his creative senses. Into the roomy holds of these seagoing truths Poet Pound crowds everybody and everything he most abhors...
...ambition and a good thing. But it remains to be seen whether Freshmen will pay particular attention to the newly appointed Counselor. This will depend largely on the Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly...
...chemicals responsible are complex compounds of chlorine and naphthalene, recognized for some time as the cause of skin diseases affecting industrial workers handling them. The higher the amount of chlorine present in the compound, the greater the damage, both to the skin and to the liver, Dr. Drinker has found...