Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vitamins come in for special attention when sunshine is low." Vitamins D, A, and B-1 are very important to growth especially if "the dog belongs to one of the breads in which the bone development is great. Ulceration and skin disease are traceable to lack of vitamins...
Princeton has Captain Al Vande Weghe, undoubtedly the second best dorsal ace in the country, but its depth in free-style events is only skin-deep. Ned Parke leads the free-style delegation and is capable of brilliant performances in the 100, 220, and 440. Sullivan and Boozan can both do a creditable century, as can Vande Weghe when he turns over on his belly. The Tiger captain is also a good 220 man when the occasion demands...
...metal is used in the new tanks except for pipe connections and caps. The inside shell is fibre sheeting braced with fibre ribs. Over that is a layer of buckskin, next a layer of raw rubber one-eighth inch thick, covered by a thin skin of vulcanized rubber. When a bullet pierces the tank, the raw rubber reunites and the buckskin is swelled by leaking gasoline, so that together they plug the hole...
...from being an enthusiastic inhabitant of fire, as the ancients believed, the salamander must be moist, dies if it is even thoroughly dried out. Though no fire-eater, the lizard-like little creature is, however, something of a devil. He secretes in his skin a milky poison which causes most of his potential enemies to leave him severely alone. This skin poison is thought to be harmless...
...glossy, hair, fair skin, slight, almost skinny figure, she is still pretty ... young, scared . . . at the noise, welling up, drowning her, beating the ugly mocking arch overhead...