Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader of a delegation of five Moroccan women to the fourth congress of the Pan-Arab Women's Federation in Damascus, smoking cigarettes with Continental casualness in a decolleté, skin-tight gown which had the other 300 delegates from nine Arab countries* goggling, the princess tucked one shapely foot under her and discussed her favorite topics: divorce and the veil. Morocco, she said, will soon have a law requiring men to produce legitimate reasons for a divorce instead of just telling a woman three times to go away. "Of course," she added, "we cannot forbid divorce, and besides...
...made sensitive to very small differences of temperature. An object that is one degree warmer or colder than its environment is detectable under field conditions. In the laboratory much smaller contrasts are sufficient. A woman's legs photograph bright because her stockings are transparent to heat from her skin. Her girdle shows faintly under her skirt because it is in close contact with body heat...
...objections to BCG are based on doubts of its safety and effectiveness, plus the complaint that it invalidates the tuberculin skin test.* Dr. Carroll Palmer of the U.S. Public Health Service found that among 50,000 young people in Puerto Rico, the vaccine cut TB by only...
...which the skin is scratched with a needle dipped in an extract from killed TB bacilli. A skin reaction indicates a past or present TB infection...
Aluminum Pleasure Dome. The first aluminum dome auditorium in the U.S. was erected by Kaiser Aluminum Co. at Virginia Beach, Va. for a municipally owned convention center to seat 2,200. Made of 575 diamond-shaped aluminum panels bolted and sealed together, the stressed-skin aluminum shell is 145 ft. in diameter, 49½ ft. high. The auditorium's cost...