Word: skinless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thesis that the Pacific Ocean represents a vast area from which Earth has lost 20 miles of outside skin. That "raw spot in Mother Earth's side promises to explain the true nature of Earth's disturbances, the crustal movements appearing to extend along the edges of the skinless areas. We shall never be able to predict the day on which an earthquake will occur. But it is possible that we shall be able to set the date to within a year...
Until a few years ago a person who was burned over a third or more of his body had little chance of living. If he survived the shock, he would lose so much water through his skinless flesh that his blood would be unable to get rid of waste matter. If toxemia did not kill him, he would probably die of external infection contracted through his raw flesh...
...gold for the Argentine, automobiles for Montevideo, shirts, toys, plows and a consignment of machine guns for Paraguay. She also carried passengers and crew to the number of 400 souls. One of the last to leave the ship before she sailed was a horrid looking man with a skinless skull and grey cotton gloves, Captain Clendening's physician. He was the one who first noticed the ship was listing...