Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether the heat kills them directly or whether the heat stimulates germicidal substances in the body is moot among doctors. In that fog they stand close to medieval predecessors who cured paresis by running threads, horse hairs or bristles (collectively called setons) under the scalp and under the skin of the chest. The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head...
...deeply under Stalin's skin has penetrated world-wide suspicion of the Old Bolshevik trials as frame-ups, the Dictator disclosed in a slashing speech delivered secretly to Moscow bigwigs on March 3 and broadcast last week by electrical transcription to all Russia. "It is a rotten theory to say the Trotskyists do not have reserves in the Soviet Union among the remnants of the exploiting classes and among foreign traitors!" came Stalin's voice off the phonograph record. The U. S. translator of Trotsky's works, Max Eastman, was termed by Stalin "a notorious swindler...
...introduced into the blood stream to replace such natural protection had to be a stable emulsion. The Philadelphia men achieved that by mixing water, fat and 5% sugar under intense heat. An injection of this into a patient's vein or under his skin "blots up" toxins produced by microorganisms. Said Dr. Boericke: "The longest time it takes the fluid to work is twelve hours. In pneumonia cases we have noted improvements within a minute after injection...
Howard R. Patch '37, president of the Dramatic Club, stated yesterday that "Dog Beneath the Skin" will be the most intricate and ambitious enterprise ever undertaken by the Club. The play will require an enormous cast, a large production staff, music, and a chorus. Tryouts, it was announced, are to be held in Phillips Brooks House this afternoon from 1:30 to 5:30 o'clock, tonight from 7 to 9 o'clock, and tomorrow afternoon 1:30 to 5:30 o'clock...
...Beneath the Skin" has received exceedingly favorable reviews in England, where it ran last year. A high spirited up-to-the-minute comedy in Gilbert and Sullivan style the projected play satirizes many phases of modern day life as typical of both here and abroad, including such things as Fascism, night clubs, and soap box oratory. The female parts will be handled by Radcliffe girls...