Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cockroach gets a new skin, which serves as its skeleton, seven times before reaching maturity...
...family no harm whatever. (He is a mere acquaintance: I hardly know the fellow, really.) My own family, I am happy to report, resembles the socially prominent families of the East in its loyalty to family traditions. As an instance, we wear nothing but Munsingwear garments next to the skin. Nothing else will do, you understand. Moreover, of late a new tradition has taken hold: we are becoming quite athletically inclined, and as a result have now used six bottles of Absorbine Jr. I have wondered, now and then, whether this is sufficient to constitute a full-fledged family tradition...
Corporal &Marshal. Meanwhile in Italy every newsorgan which reported the doings in London spoke, of Haile Selassie by his family name, "Signore Tafari." However, nobody much bothered to read the papers. All Italy was rapturously celebrating the return from Ethiopia of its Conqueror. His skin seemed suntanned to the toughness of leather. Moist upon it were the kisses of Benito Mussolini as II Duce embraced and smacked on both cheeks grizzled, tough, triumphant Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Viceroy of Ethiopia...
...transmitted light. Other uses for Physicist Land's discovery: three-dimensional (stereoscopic) movies in color;- sunglasses which filter out glare without discoloring the view; transparent models of working parts which show up areas of strain; beams permitting dermatologists to see into the nether layers of the skin...
...skilled and inventive craftsman. At 15 he quit work on his father's farm, sent out cards reading, "Artistic taxidermy in all its branches." He thought stuffed animals were ridiculous, inaugurated the practice of making a sculptured model, faithful in every muscle, curve and hollow, stretching the skin over it. He made his first trip to Africa in 1896. He saw then that little of the real Africa could be conveyed by stiff specimens without backgrounds, or by frayed and disconsolate animals in a zoo, and conceived the idea which came to fruition last week when the hall bearing...