Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implantation method might easily be used on humans "with minimum inconvenience to the patient," they said. They cited a case of a woman who obtained relief from menopause symptoms after a 14-milligram tablet of estrone (ovarian hormone, known in the U. S. as theelin) was stitched under her skin...
...Prince instantly put his hand into the cauldron and ladled out some of the boiling lead without sustaining any injury. . . . It is a well-known scientific fact that the human hand, if perfectly cleansed, may be placed uninjured in lead boiling at white heat, the moisture of the skin protecting it under these conditions from any injury...
...superb courage which impels action because it is right. Our greatest fear is not to do wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. ... A wrong adaptation of foreign customs creates in us, especially among the young, a feeling that politeness is commonplace and that smartness and insolence are equivalent to good breeding. We attained our freedom but our spirit is still bound by shackles forced...
...provoked by a Campinchi speech last year to sailors on the French steamer General Bonaparte. According to Fascist Gayda, Radical Socialist Campinchi roared: "From Corsica an offensive will be launched that will bring Fascism to its knees! What I can tell you is that we will have the skin of Fascism...
...Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying, and today he is neither Fascist nor Communist nor Socialist-just a Mexican who will naturally skin any gringos he can and who devotes his life to bettering, by fair means or foul, the lot of his own people, the Indians. Recently he boasted: "The great masses of the Mexican people are eating better than ever before. . . . The tendency in Mexico is toward general betterment. . . . President Roosevelt...