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Word: skinful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominal' (Nagasaki-type) atomic 'bomb, the heat cooks the skin up to two miles away. But if a person happens to be looking at the detonation, he will certainly be blinded permanently at more than four miles away, and even at a greater distance his eyesight will be seriously damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...between me and the center of the city . . . Suddenly, there was a tremendous flash, far brighter than the sun . . . The next thing I knew, I was lying on the ground. As I scrambled to my feet, I saw the great mushroom of smoke rising into the sky . . . The skin of my bare arms seemed as if it had been held before a hot fire and was tingling ... I was wearing dark-tinted spectacles at the time ... I thought this fact might be of interest to Ophthalmologist Rose and Biophysicist Buettner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...blood was jetting out more than a foot. I was afraid the car would catch on fire, so I got my knife out of my pocket and went to work. The skin was not too hard to cut, but every time I chopped through a tendon I felt a jerk in the nerves of my neck. The cutting was made easier by the fact that bones in the arm were broken through. I just followed the line of the break with the blade of my knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fear & Shock | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...early and treated by the best known methods, 140,000 might have been saved. Launching it's 1953 drive for $18 million, the society said that with present knowledge, cancer-cure rates can be increased thus: lung, 5% to 50%; rectum, 15% to 75%; mouth, 40% to 65%; skin, 85% to 95%; female reproductive system, from 30% to 80%; breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Letter to Diognetus. But Van Dusen is confident of the outcome. "As one hops quickly from continent to continent and country to country, almost everything changes-climate, clothes, color of skin, customs, language, outlook. There is only one thing . . . which is everywhere the same: Christians and the Christian church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Plane's-Eye View | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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