Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last phenomenon . . . has to do with skin sensibility and was a result of the increased air pressure on the lower surface of the body. It consists of that force which restricts terminal velocity to 119 m.p.h. instead of infinity and appears in consciousness as a very gentle, evenly distributed, generalized, superficial pressure on the surface of the body toward the earth. The nearest possible similar earthly experience is that of being lowered slowly into a great bed of softest down...
...captain and catcher of his class baseball team at Williams, and recalls how hazardous the sport then was. "If we were hurt, we were hurt. I still carry the scar of a left finger badly broken by a foul tip; I remember pushing the bone back under the skin, wrapping a handkerchief around it and playing the game out, but any one of us would have preferred to lose a finger rather than lose a ball game...
...imagination aflame with success, Dr. Carrel told a convention of the American Medical Association: "I found that permanent life outside the organism was possible. . . . The tissues actually used in human surgery, as cartilage, periosteum, skin, and aponeuroses, could easily be taken in large quantities from the fresh cadavers of fetuses and infants and preserved in vaseline and in cold storage. A supply of tissues in latent life would be constantly ready for use, and the tubes containing the tissues could even be sent in small refrigerators of the type of the thermos bottle to surgeons who need them...
...Germans in founding, financing and rapidly expanding a native Nazi party in Rumania. Last week the King's police swooped down on 20,000 Rumanian peasant Nazis at Kishineff looking for their paymaster. Several men seized at the Nazi rally proved to be Germans. Searched to the skin, one turned out to be a walking bundle of banknotes. When he was identified as Herr Friedrich Weber, correspondent in Rumania of Realmleader Hitler's personal newsorgan, Volkischer Beobachter ("People's Observer"), the King's police clapped him instantly into jail, convinced that they had caught the Nazi...
...which the other players try to solve by asking questions in turn. Because a smudge of dust is as visible on her hair as a thumbprint on white paper, she visits her hairdresser once a day for a shampoo. She dresses quickly, uses few cosmetics because they irritate her skin. In the large Bello house at Bel Air many of the rooms are white, as are Jean Harlow's bathing suits and most of the fantastic clothes designed for her by MGM's Costumer Adrian, who is well aware of the fact that fine feathers make fine fans...