Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Lotte Feingraeber is Polish, she ducked down a side street, eluded German frontier guards, slipped into Poland. Clawing at her tar-covered skin, she was placed in a hospital at Churcuv "suffering from nervous breakdown." Aroused, the Swiss President of the Upper Silesian Mixed Commission for Protection of National Minorities, M. Felix Calender, demanded without result last week that the German Government punish the Storm Troopers who tarred Lotte Feingraeber. The tar having been peeled off her and soothing lotions applied, she said with returning composure: "I shall demand 50,000 marks [$20,000] from the German authorities...
Best treatment for acne which Dr. Michael knows of, after dealing with the disease for 25 years, is to spray the pimpled skin with x-rays. Treatment must go on for several years. Relapses frequently occur...
Subject of the leading article in last week's American Medical Association Journal was acne vulgaris-the blackheads and pimples of adolescence. Dr. Jeffrey Charles Michael, Houston acne specialist who wrote the article, included the address he made as chairman of the skin specialists attending the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City last June. Here was a disease that has marred to some extent the face, back and chest of every other human being who ever grew up to manhood. It has gouged ugly pits in multitudes of skins. Doctors have dealt with it for 3,200 years...
They do know that pores of the face, chest and back, through which sebum oozes to oil the skin and hair, sometimes close up. Sebum, thus suppressed, pushes outward, forms a blackhead or a pimple...
With the zero snap of an Argentine winter in the air last week, Buenos Aires correspondents shivered over a decree from big, harsh, faultlessly attired President Agustin P. Justo which seemed likely to cost many of them their jobs. The President's skin is tissue-thin. In a fury last year he ripped out an order to "sue the Government of the United States for reparations for besmirching Argentineans' reputations!" after the U. S. Senate's munitions probe charged the acceptance of bribes by Argentine Army munitions buyers (TIME, Oct. 8). Scared underlings finally broke to General Justo the extreme...