Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald Statesman Theunis, the official interpreter at the Cannes Conference, M. Georges J. Mathieu, wrote: "I noticed a very remarkable difference between M. Theunis' anger and M. Jaspar's. When M. Theunis was getting angry he used to show a very conspicuous danger signal: the skin on top of his head became bright red. While M. Jaspar, next to him, showed it in his face...
...find Representative De Priest gone. But their racial embarrassment will be more rather than less because they will find sitting squarely in their Demo cratic midst another Chicago Negro by the name of Arthur W. Mitchell. They may object to the color of their new col league's skin but they can find no legitimate fault with his politics...
...kind of junkman of the blood stream. It collects worn-out blood cells, breaks them up and sends the debris to the liver. Marvin Goodman's spleen, ten times oversize, destroyed his red blood cells with mad indiscrimination. As a result, he became anemic. His skin turned yellow, then green. His weight fell from 150 lb. to 90 lb. in six months. He obviously was dying of hemolytic jaundice...
...bitter disillusionment of the period is brilliantly expressed in the drawing of A Woman by Otto Dix. There is nothing soft or feminine in the face. Her coarse skin and irregular features express suffering, her eyes have seen the horrors of war. The work is a passionate attack on the brutality and stupidity of modern civilization. Just as forceful in its attack but far more humorous is the drawing by George Grosz called "Berlin Cafe" The bourgeoisie of the German capital is satirized with vitriolic fire. Portrayals of the sufferings of the lower classes appear in the prints and drawings...
...varied pressure gradients in the air, produced by storms, have the same effect on short waves as layers of glass of varied densities have on light. However, the experiments carried on so far by the new station have led to the conclusion that short waves are not as nearly skin to light waves as was believed...