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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Tacchi-Venturi, upon raising his eyes from his papers, saw a pale, demented face and a hand which grasped a slender, dagger-like paper knife. Quick, the assassin sprang. Quicker, the Jesuit dodged. As a result the knife barely lacerated the neck skin of Father Tacchi-Venturi. Meanwhile the sleepy porter had valorously collared Signor De Angelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Jesuit Stabbed | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...girl contracted a skin disease when a baby, and later abscesses which formed on her eyes, presumably through inattention, rendered her sightless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Made to See | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian, save for its short, sharp tail. Horned toads run; they do not hop. They breathe by means of lungs, not through the skin. Frogs and regular toads can breathe through the skin. Horned toads (i.e. lizards) are of a higher form of life than are batrachians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horned Toad | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...breach of the Jacksonville agreement, TIME greatly regrets that juxtaposition wrought injustice to the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp., one of the few Pennsylvania operators that did not choose to break their word to save their financial skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Fiend Crowe is 35, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, slim, weighs 140 Ibs. His hair is black and kinky, his eyebrows heavy, his ears big, his eyes maroon. He can change his skin color. It is normally brown. But at times he makes it appear lighter with a chemical, at other times darker with a lotion. The Tribune's squad of man-and-news hunters have been unable to find him during five months search. He had disappeared well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catch-Scamps | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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