Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spot. Seeking a logical reason for the frequency of earthquakes along the shores of the Pacific, Dr. Beno Gutenberg of Pasadena presented a thesis that the Pacific Ocean represents a vast area from which Earth has lost 20 miles of outside skin. That "raw spot in Mother Earth's side promises to explain the true nature of Earth's disturbances, the crustal movements appearing to extend along the edges of the skinless areas. We shall never be able to predict the day on which an earthquake will occur. But it is possible that we shall be able...
...wife. The part of King Mofolaba, a scapegrace chief whose misdemeanors account for most of the action, is ably played by a 77-year-old Negro hair-tonic specialist named Toto Wane. When, inflamed by contraband gin, he executes a white man and then plots to kill and skin Paul Robeson, it is too much for Commissioner Sanders. He turns back from a contemplated trip to England, arrives via airplane, shoots King Mofolaba, rewards Robeson for loyal assistance by making him head chief of all the tribes in his district...
...most common medical procedures today is the skin test by means of which doctors tell whether a person is sensitive to ragweed, strawberries, horsehair, chicken feathers, scarlet fever, diphtheria or any other known allergen. The physician scrapes off a tiny area of the patient's skin, applies a drop or two of the allergic substance, covers the whole with a piece of adhesive plaster. Skin tests have preserved the health and lives of multitudes. They have also" served to reveal that about 1% of the population develops an eczema-like skin irritation solely from the adhesive tape used...
...most revered pharmaceutical chemist in the country, Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, head of Johnson & Johnson's laboratories at New Brunswick, N. J. since 1889. Mr. Kilmer told them that, as the result of his investigations, he considered the ingredients of adhesive tape not irritating as such; that the skin secretions are retained under the moisture-repellent coating with a resultant maceration of the epidermis. This, rather than idiosyncrasy, said Mr. Kilmer, is the most frequent cause of the irritation...
Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants. Complexion, previous skin diseases or a predisposition to shingles or other allergens apparently have nothing to do with the sensitivity to adhesive plaster found in one out of every hundred normal men, women & children...