Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, to remonstrate with those who have no respect for the virgin white margin of a new book, is to moralize with Don Juan. My suggestion is that the Library provide at the desk slips of gummed onion-skin paper such as are used by Law students, which can be attached to the page in peril, covered with critical and artistic scum which floats to the surface of the defiler's mind, and later removed when their appropriateness is past. GLENN C. BRAMBLE...
...pneumonia treatment, but this particular application is still in the experimental stage, although several New York specialists are using similar methods. The current is applied through two electric plates, one fitted to the back and one to the chest. The current flows directly through the lungs without burning the skin or causing dangerous fever elsewhere in the body, and is believed to raise the temperature within the lungs themselves to about 115 degrees. The effect is to reduce the congestion, just as gelatin is melted. After a few treatments the heavy breathing subsides and the lungs are able to absorb...
...year marks published in another column of today's issue come as an interesting coincidence after Professor Bliss Perry's statement Monday night that a major letter and Phi Beta Kappa Key are by no means incompatible. Contrary to the popular idea that athletes get through college by the "skin of their teeth" and the kindness of their instructors, the results compiled show that not only the athletes but even those black sheep the managers and their assistants stand, if anything, rather better scholastically than do the rank and file of the college...
Even now there are many who may be won over at once by the claim of a French scientist that he had discovered in the human body a "paroptic" sense, or one making sight possible through the pores of the skin. In proof of this the doctor had his subject blindfolded with heavy cloth for ordinary light lays, and with leadfoil for X-rays. The subject then "read", printed cards held a short distance from his nose...
...with its infinite number of square miles covered with food which has through the ages supported immense numbers of these very animals,--for a successful venture in breeding not only the caribou and the musk-ox, and I should think the yak also, another very valuable meat and skin animal. Now the Newfoundland and Canadian governments are both willing to facilitate in every way, by protection and by grant, the development of such an enterprise...