Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases with no other anesthetic, and used only a local in 103. A main advantage of the method: it induces a light "sleep state," from which the patient arouses quickly. ¶Compounds of salicylic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, tannic acid and their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken by mouth...
...Sarah Roberts, a five-year-old Negro girl, knocked timidly at the door of a Boston public school and asked admission as a student. Her request was denied; the school was for whites, and her skin was black. This incident precipitated what was probably the first segregation case ever to reach a United States court...
...they have heard talk of despair. Many of them, if you catch them unawares, look as if they were enjoying themselves, and not merely enjoying their unhappiness. In fact ... it begins to look nowadays in our perspective as if Sinclair Lewis and George F. Babbitt were brothers, under the skin...
Cooperating in the Ohio pen trials are Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Ohio State University's College of Medicine. Their researchers will inject cancer cells just under the skin (not into the bloodstream) of a volunteer's forearms. After two weeks, they will cut out one injection site (leaving a hairline wound about half an inch long). The second will be left and studied. It is expected that if there is any growth, it will be only at the injection site, and it will be cut out as soon as detected...
...stories are worth a hundred novels in which the heart of the matter is cased in a padding of sociological fat. Life, Aran Islander O'Flaherty seems to say, can only be understood in terms of death. Like many another Irishman, he sees the skull beneath the skin, just as his starveling heroes see the sharp rocks gnaw through the thin soil. ("I wish you a happy death," cries one after another of his characters, as if the wish were the greatest thing life had to offer.) To underline his point that man's nature is animal...