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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smooth, like a touchable skin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

...ground and blows through his pungi. The pungi is a bottle-shaped gourd with two reeds or bamboos inserted. One tube has finger stop-holes and emits a shrill penetrating whine. The other has no holes and gives out a drone. Snakes have no ears. But under their skin they have two primitive ear drums and through those the Indian snake feels the pungi's vibrations. And to them it wags its head like a tremulous dotard, puffing and belching the while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron who shudders at the drinking-orgy reports from the campuses in her magazine are sisters under the skin in sharing a universal tendency of present-day society. As long as it continues, the colleges will have to pay the penalty of public ignorance combined with curiosity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIMELIGHT BLUES | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...bogeymen with which the Soviet press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baptist Bogey-Man | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Football would be no more without seal skin coats (dyed muskrat) if it were not for the dear old black and white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apropos the Skunk | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

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