Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There's one other thing, since I've come to think Bill was always willing to take a drink. If the job was tough, be it hot or cold, You could get it done if Bill was told. He'd fix the fence, or skin a cow, Or ride a bronc, and EVEN PLOW, Or do anything, if you told him how. Like many men in the oldtime West, On any job, he did his best. He left a blank that's hard to fill For there'll never be another Bill. Both White...
...Capy, winner of the 1930 Prix Severine, transplants the stolid peasants of George Sand's pastoral novels to the War-years of 1914-18 and presents them in crisp, classic profile. Madeline of the white skin, Sebastien of the shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien...
...mercury fetches $1 a pound, but evil accompanies the wealth. Quicksilver is a. fickle metal. It is poisonous and those who work with it are usually affected. The pure metal may be absorbed by the skin or the vapors inhaled. Alchemists discovered this as they did most other facts known about this keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron...
...wrong," carped Congressman Boland shortly after witnessing the mishap which befell the U. S. S. Akron last February and laid her up for nearly two months for repairs. But nothing was wrong. Last week Lakehurst mechanics were stitching the last bit of fabric to the Akron's torn skin, finished tinkering her broken fin. When Lieut Commander Rosendahl barks "Up ship!" as he sails to join the Fleet in the Pacific next week, his ship will rise as sound and airworthy as ever...
...German songs, a final group in English. James Melton's program conformed exactly to the pattern set by the earnest, more indigent debutants who have preceded him. He sang most of it through his nose, depended on high, exaggerated pianissimi for many of his effects, gave feeble, skin-deep interpretations of well-worn songs. But his venture was noteworthy if his performance was not. A high-priced radio entertainer was attempting in a modest manner to establish musical prestige...