Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irritating to broken or unbroken skin, even under heavy bandages...
...State asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill., was William Rockne, 19, son of Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales...
...healthy woman can wear sheer stockings and low-necked dresses in winter without catching cold because warm blood is sent coursing through her skin by a sex hormone called theelin. Principal function of theelin (Greek theelis, female) is to make a woman womanly. It is elaborated by the ovaries.* The theelin molecule contains 18 atoms of carbon, 22 of hydrogen, two of oxygen...
...christening of the hero, Ben, born into a family of clergymen. The ceremony is marred when a poor, ugly, distant relative called Miserable Sarah breaks in on the good-hearted soft-headed assemblage with words of cruel wisdom. Groaning heavily, she tells Ben that he has a thin skin "and a thin skin is easy scratched and easy tickled...Play the fool when you come to something you don't understand...If you must play games, choose the one you're good at." Ben's parents are drowned and he is taken in by a pious uncle...
What I want to know is-where is that big bear skin he promised to send me when he returned to the Northland...