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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh, the Humanity! | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled to the skin in back, his hair ablaze, his face rutted with third-degree burns, wandering about babbling: "Das versteh' ich nicht!" (I don't understand it) over & over. Another led out Captain Pruss, his clothes mostly gone, his lips like two roasted sausages. A naked man, broiled yellow, staggered out, murmured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh, the Humanity! | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...March of the Little Lead Soldiers Pierne *Bacchanale from 'Samson and Delilah' Saint Saens *"New Vienna" Waltzes Strauss *First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Orphean Club of Lasell Junior College George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor *Cole Porter Hits of 1937 Arranged by L. Harris "Ridin' High"--"I've Got You Under My Skin"--"It's D'Lovely" *Jealousy," Gypsy Tango Gade *"Stars and Stripes Forever," March Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

Last night at the Copley Theatre the Harvard Dramatic Club continued it tradition of presenting American premieres. The piece chosen this time was "The Dog Beneath The Skin", a satirie fantasy, by Auden and Isherwood, two current which-hopes of English literature and communism. A little after twelve thirty a slightly bewildered but certainly amused audience trickled out of the theatre feeling that "The Dog" probably wasn't a good play but that it was good fun. On the whole, they were right...

Author: By Eng. Dept. and Charles I. Weir, S | Title: Tbe Crimson Playgoer | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

Opening at the Copley Theatre tonight, the Dramatic Club production of "Dog Beneath the Skin" includes in its cast of 103 people representatives from three girls' schools in addition to H.D.C. actors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Dog" Has First Appearance At Copley Theatre Tonight | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

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