Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They learned that the sun-browned, crudely clad gentleman was no castaway, but a German scientist, Dr. Karl Ritter. He once lived in Berlin, has a wife in Baden. Last July, tired of civilization, anxious to study the effect of uncooked foods on the digestion and sunlight on the skin, he projected the Galapagos venture. First he visited a dentist who extracted all his fallible human teeth and substituted durable artificial ones. Then he set forth with a devoted female assist...
Three of Frandsen's 14 foxes escaped during the massacre and were later seen in the countryside. Ray MacNeil shot one, planned to sell the skin. He was arrested "for shooting on Sunday...
From wall to wall the little trapped ball, hard as a modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements...
...Welch Process: Carefully selected Concord grapes are shipped to the plant, washed, weighed. A stemming machine separates them from the stem, drops them through aluminum pipes to aluminum stirring kettles, where they are heated to bring out skin colors and aromas. The juice is pressed out by hydraulic presses built so as not to crush the seeds in the process. From the presses the juice journeys through more aluminum pipes to more aluminum kettles, where it is again heated, this time to prevent fermentation. After spending several months in glass carboys to allow the cream of tartar to settle...
There are Eskimo and Tchuktchis Indian villages about every 15 miles along the north Siberian coast where Eielson and Borland presumably floundered. They may be squatting sheltered in a native's snow-drifted skin-&-driftwood house. If so, they did not see or were unable to signal a searching plane which flew from Teller, base of relief operations, to the Nanuk. The plane is still at the ship, held down by dismaying weather, scant fuel...