Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Kittredge once said that he marvelled at the genius of the "skin-clad savage (name and date unknown) who first invented the fish-hook or the blow-gun or the fire-drill." It is possible that the genius of this ancient savage has been grossly under-rated. Heretofore scientists alone have examined the records of the rocks and runes. Why not turn loose upon these records devotees of electrical lore or send into the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen those with a hobby for automobiles? Then, thanks to the hobby-horse, perhaps the world will learn that the Neolithic...
...makes notes in their margins is not and it is possible never will be, as great as the three celebrities mentioned above. His comments, to be sure, arouse an interest in those who read them to know the name of the author; but the interest is one not skin to admiration and usually find, expression in somewhat vigorous language. This though a third marginal commentator finds the space to add: "Crude but Correct...
...Oliver '04 will give a free lecture at the Medical School tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock on "The Care of the Skin and Some of its Common Diseases". The public is invited...
...compete with "You tell 'em, kid". Washington crossing the Delaware huddled in the stern-sheets of a Chesapeake sharpy, hardly cuts as magnificent a figure as he does in the famous painting of that name, nor can we help suspecting that John Smith discovered by a jealous red skin in the wigwam (if it was a wigwam) of Pocahontias will produce far more excitement than the surrender at Appamaiox...
April 2.--The Care of the Skin and Some of its Common Diseases. Dr. E. L. Oliver...