Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints and elasticity of the muscles, along with excellent preservation of the features of the face. It looks like Lenin sleeping...
...ranchers were ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. Larry Moore, who understood Mendel, persuaded other ranchers that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over $50,000 for his 337 pelts. But he regretfully foresees a fall in price as silver blus become more numerous...
...arms are short from shoulder to elbow, he is more than ordinarily susceptible to stomach ulcers. If he has kept a few baby teeth, he should watch his white blood-cell count. If a child has wide-set eyes, a low nose bridge, folds of skin obscuring the inner eye-corners and wide spaces between his front teeth, he should be especially careful about exposure to infantile paralysis...
...chocolaty skin, soft negroid eyes, feminine hands. But he could raise four army muskets by inserting his fingers into the muzzles. In one Austrian battle he defended a bridge so fiercely that thereafter he was called "Horatius Codes of the Tyrol." Said admiring General Thiebault: "He is the only colored man whom I have forgiven his skin...
...ruined," cried Alexandre Dumas' mother just before his birth. But he had fair skin and hair (which later became kinky), blue eyes. As a boy he had a hard time learning the alphabet, but he wrote beautiful longhand. Said his mother: "Every idiot can write well...