Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike astrologers and experimenters in telepathy and clairvoyance, Astronomer Stetson traces a possible channel through which his supposed influences may reach their human objects. The ultraviolet radiation increase due to sunspots produces more Vitamin D in the skin. It may also produce more vitamins in plants which men eat. Increased vitamin intake may, through the endocrine glands, affect emotions and moods. Therefore, "since the composite curve of business activity is fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect business activity...
When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
Last year the club put on the first American showing of James Bridie's "Jonah And The Whale" as well as contributing largely to the production of T. S. Eliot's "Murder In The Cathedral" by the Poets' Theatre. Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath The Skin" was the spring offering...
...president of the Dramatic Club, Hart directed last spring's production of "The Dog Beneath the Skin" and is directing the production of his own play. In the past he has associated with Aldrich and de Liagre in producing "Petticoat Fever," "Three Cornered Moon" and "Pure in Heart...
...Below 83° the capillary blood vessels have constricted as much as they can to prevent the radiation of heat from the skin and the body begins to shiver...