Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Moritz Oppenheim, 61, best skin specialist in Vienna...
Professor Gabor Nobl, 74, Polyclinic skin & syphilis specialist, who shot his wife and himself...
...painted frog from the Amazon, whose jewel-like skin contains poison used by natives for arrows and darts...
...felt. Someone told him that these were the famed deer botflies. The scientist estimated that if the flies were traveling at 800 m.p.h. the force of the impact would amount to 310 pounds and that they would penetrate deeply into human flesh- whereas, in reality, they bounced off the skin after the collision...
...discreetly of an unnamed scientist who decided to pit a modern wetting agent against that anciently proverbial shedder of water-the plumage of a duck. He added a small amount of a wetting agent to a bath, put a duck in the tub. The duck, quickly soaked to the skin, became waterlogged, sank to its neck, floundering ignominiously. Reflecting that the duck might have caught a bothersome chill from this unprecedented experience, the scientist mercifully dispatched it, served it for dinner, with Burgundy and applesauce...