Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This excellent conduit consists essentially of two copper tubes with copper wires running through the centre of each, the whole sheathed in lead. The current travels on the inside wall of the tubes, the outside skin of the wires. Whereas ordinary telephone trunk lines have booster stations at least every 50 miles, serviced by human attendants, the coaxial cable has automatic booster stations every ten miles, accessible through manholes if repairs are needed...
...sneezing every few minutes since Oct. 9, Mary Margaret Cleer, 13, daughter of a Fort Myer, Va. gasoline station attendant, last week held the attention of a great many curious laymen and puzzled doctors. No one knew what caused the prolonged sneezing fit which had racked the child to skin & bones and put a constant, haggard sneer on her face...
...allergy to some substance caused the sneezing, Washington doctors scratched her skin some 80 times, rubbed into the scratches hay pollen, flower pollen, pulverized cat fur, dog hair, house dust, food extracts, dozens of substances...
...Skin tests failed to reveal any specific allergy. A Washington doctor cut out the adolescent's tonsils, with no effect on the sneezing. Other specialists could find nothing unusual in her lungs or nervous system...
...wagered its peasant owner 60? he could eat all but the bones. He won. Asked what he ate for dessert, Savovich quickly snatched a fez from an astonished Moslem onlooker, swallowed it in pieces. Boasted he: "This is nothing. For 100 dinars ($2) I can eat a whole sheep skin...