Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure? Dr. Spurway suggests that a woman who claims such a pregnancy can be tested by a skin-grafting operation if the child is born alive. Ordinarily, no skin graft from one human being to another (except between identical twins) "takes" permanently, because of cell differences. A normal child's cells are slightly different even from the mother's, because they have some of the father's antigens. A successful graft from child to mother would show that the child had received no antigens from any other source...
...were married. Doctors promptly began checking the claimants (names withheld), first to be sure that they were serious and sincere, next for blood types. Any blood difference between mother and daughter would throw out the claim. Only after these tests are passed will there be occasion for the decisive skin-graft tests...
...comic techniques. He has gone back several centuries for gimmicks like people hidden in closets, boys dressed as girls, chairs pulled out from under their prospective occupants, burlesque dialect and gestures, and even bad jokes. But Wilder has not forgotten the innovating spirit of his Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth days, either. Every main character in The Matchmaker has at least one outright soliloquy in which he steps up to the footlights and blatantly tells the audience his thoughts and motivations, and at the end each of them gives his own idea of the moral...
...deep in shock, with hardly any blood pressure. Plasma and whole blood were pumped into him. The skin of his nose was torn; his eyes were swollen shut; his face was almost black. His shoulders and thighs were covered with bruises; a hemorrhage in his left eye poured blood continuously. His heart, kidneys, liver and stomach had been damaged by internal air pressure or the terrible g forces. He sank into unconsciousness, and, while he lay dully on his bed, Air Force and Navy flight surgeons tramped through his room. At one time 18 specialists were crowding around...
...horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble. Rhino shin is good for leg trouble; the hip cures female disorders. Even the dung is beneficial for skin ailments...