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Word: skin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the stripper proving the most-dressed representative of her clan ever seen. . . . "C. B. Cochrane opened his new Trocadero cabaret revue the same night. Entitled 'Eve in the Park,' show features a nude girl enclosed in a huge glass shower-bath, stepping out and dressing from skin to outer garments. Artistic and alluring, the twist went over nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Stripping & Unstripping | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...Babcock forbids the use of formalin, carbolic acid or lysol in dressing wounds because they retard healing. He recommends weak wet dressings of bichloride of mercury or iodine, bromine (for fetid wounds), and aluminum acetate (for raw skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Office Surgery | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Twice gassed and wounded, he was given vocational training by the Veterans Bureau after the War, trying successively art, salesmanship, photography, journalism. On the Omaha World-Herald, his dark skin, long, sharp nose, thinning hair and bespectacled seriousness earned him the nickname "Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guilded Age | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...murder mystery it was a natural. On Easter Eve, the mother had apparently been preparing vegetables and a roast for next day's dinner. She had been strangled. Judging from her bruised knuckles and the traces of skin and grey hair later found beneath her nails, she had fought her assailant. The roomer, deaf, had presumably been murdered in his sleep. The murderer had then waited until the daughter came home at 3 a.m. Charles Robinson who lived on the top floor reported, "As I came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Murder for Easter | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Once we went to the other extreme and rotted in Widener during the holidays preparing for a make-up exam. Never do it. It dries the skin. One's eyes become dull and glazed, like prisoners' in Sing Sing. And one can't keep one's self respect, cating in Hayes Bickford or Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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