Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their borrowed shell, they came home half a length ahead of Jesus College, Cambridge. Next they raced the Vancouver Rowing Club (the University of British Columbia's varsity eight). The Canadians, too, had been delayed by the strike. Moreover, half their crew had come down with nasty skin infections. This was their first race of the regatta...
...reds in Renoir's portrait of Mme. Henriot (opposite) are sonorous indeed, make a rich foil for her pale flesh and paler costume. He used to say that all he asked of a model was "a skin that takes the light," but the portrait shows that Renoir could rise to and convey beauties of personality as well as those of flesh alone. His bronze study of Mme. Renoir nursing their son (right) goes beyond flesh and personality alike to celebrate an ever-recurring and ever-moving relationship...
...last week, 900,000 Canadian youngsters had been inoculated without a single proved case of polio resulting from the vaccine. The greatest and most significant technical difference between U.S. and Canadian methods was that all vaccinations in Canada had been given by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection. This greatly lessened the likelihood that paralytic polio would be provoked by jaBbing a needle into muscle and nerves...
...diagram). Some modern turbojets have this arrangement too, but all the air that is compressed passes through the combustion chambers to form the high-speed jet. In the bypass engine, part of the air from the forward compressor flows around the combustion chambers (incidentally cooling trie engine's skin) and mixes with the speeding gas in the tailpipe. It cools the stream and slows it, but adds greatly to its mass. The net result is a large, comparatively slow stream that does not waste a large amount of energy by outspeeding its airplane...
Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, by Dylan Thomas. A prose epitaph from the legendary poet of Laugharne, containing a fragment of a novel and 20 other tales, all as panurgent, eloquent and unpredictable as the man himself (TIME...