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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explosion's cause: Gasoline and fumes leaking into a compartment of the ships "skin", next to a 250,000-gallon airplane fuel tank (which contained 60,000 gallons at the moment but did not explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off San Diego | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...short limbs supported a massive misshapen head. The forehead indeed, was clear and candid, the eyes quick and shrewd, penetrating and sagacious; but below the small flat nose an apelike mouth thrust forward its enormous jaws and pendulous underlip. Her copper-colored hair was coarse, wiry and dull, her skin patchy and of a dull greyish pallor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

They tarried in Manhattan on their way to Washington. Manhattanites remarked that President Quezon was a cafe-au-lait replica of their small, garrulous Irish Mayor, James J. Walker. The likeness is more than skin-deep. Just as Mayor Walker is "Jimmie" to the Manhattan millions, President Quezon is "Manny" to the Filipinos and Filipinas. He has an extraordinary flair for popularity. Perhaps it is the Spanish blood in his veins that makes him an impassioned demagogue. He fought with Aguinaldo in the Insurrection, governed a province, served 10 years in Washington as Resident Commissioner and burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Using Statesmen | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...offshoot of Sir Alfred Mend's industrial chemistry activities. His son Henry is its chairman. Scientific details they seemed chary in giving to the reporters. However, they did relate the drug's use, which the New York Times reported: "It can be applied to the skin and even to the tongue without burning and can be swallowed. More amazing still, it can even be injected into the blood stream, whereas few substances having any real antiseptic power can be injected into a vein without causing death." The New York Herald Tribune quoted Sir Alfred Mond: "Monsol is derived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Antiseptic | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pulling a Nixie | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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