Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exposure to mustard-gas vapor. This particular grade of rubber is not only an inadequate protection but even accentuates mustard-gas burns as well as permanently contaminating the rubber itself. Mustard gas is soluble in rubber and a droplet that would produce only a small blister on bare skin may spread through the entire rubber surface, in time, and burn the whole enclosed area...
True, the activated charcoal-soda lime will stop the vapors of all war gases . . . from going through the orifice of the tin can, but it will not stop damage to the skin, eyes, lungs by the mustard-gas vapor that goes through the rubber. The fact that rubberized fabric is used in military gas masks has probably served for the foundation of the A.W.V.S. fallacy. But the gas mask is of an entirely different grade of rubber and is quite thick in comparison to rubber underwear...
...guns -and when he came up with the British he pitched in and helped them dynamite the second biggest bridge in the Far East-and destroy their oil fields and refineries. He just managed to beat his way back to Stilwell's headquarters by the skin of his teeth...
...they are, give few hints of it. Lost Chords leaves the reader wondering whether Author Gilbert, in his comment on Dixie, has not hit on an important near-truth-the clue to the popularity of most pop songs: "The words don't mean anything, but there is a skin-prickling element in the melody...
...Straumfjord thinks the cause of corns is more complicated than bad shoes. Vitamin A deficiencies are known sometimes to produce tough or calloused skin. Trouble is that vitamin A, unlike vitamins of the B-group, is not soluble in water and thus is not readily diffused through the body's tissues. The pressure of tight shoes cuts down circulation to irritated areas, deprives them of adequate vitamin A and produces corns-even though the body as a whole may not be A-deficient. Dr. Straumfjord has found that large doses of vitamin A usually get rid of corns even...