Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret of the body's resistance to heat is its own cooling system (perspiration). Moisture evaporating from the skin surrounds exposed parts of the body with an envelope of cooler air. With the hotbox at 236°, for instance, the air ¾ in. from the nose is 226°. The skin of the nose itself is at a safe 119.5°. Air drawn into the nostrils is cooled down so much that it does not damage the lungs. The general temperature of the body rises only a couple of degrees...
Howie Schless plans to use Red Skin ner, former Milton captain, at 145, and Conrad Brevick at 121 in the only switches from Saturday's M.I.T. lineup. The remainder of the freshman team is; Abbond, 123; Smith, 156; Sigourney. 155; Campbell, 165; Knight or Keith, 175; Dunker, unlimited
...There was poor Herbert George, who, though of medium height, had the look of a Disney dwarf. His deeply lined skin was puckered into thin folds in the apprehensive expression of a chimpanzee, and his features so far departed from the normal that those who met him found themselves looking back again and again to see if they could be as they were remembered, though the total impression was by no means monstrous, merely animal...
...stone weapons, including spearheads, knives and dart points, are fairly well made, their sharp edges finished with delicate flaking. Bone awls and a bone needle indicate that the ancient hunters wore skin clothes of some sort and sewed the edges together...
...study showed that three teaspoons of mineral oil a day cuts in half the human body's ability to absorb carotene, which is converted to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, various skin and internal disorders. What's more alarming, fine droplets of mineral oil can go through the intestinal wall and reach the liver and lymph nodes, where, doctors suspect, they may cause dangerous lesions. Autopsies have revealed such droplets in patients' tissues...