Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lucian Fletcher was born in 1824 at Lynchburg, Va., where he passed a harum-scarum life which came to its first climax when he became involved in a disgraceful shooting scrape. To save his skin, his father, a well-to do planter, packed Son Lucian off over the Blue Ridge into what is now West Virginia. And to care for this handsome but troublesome son, Planter Fletcher sent along two slaves, Arch and Mary...
...casualties in the War totaled about 1,000,000, deaths about 78,000. Lewisite was developed too late for War use. Like mustard gas, it inflames its victim's respiratory system, burns his skin. Its superiority to mustard gas lies in the fact that it also poisons the burns...
...Tattooing is "related to narcissism, exhibitionism, inspectionism and skin-eroticism; to inversion, masochism, sadism, mutilations and sword-swallowing." -Dr. Frances Joseph Gerty, Chicago...
Italy continued to ship troops to Africa regardless. British indignation caused the collapse of the Hoare-Laval Deal for ending the Ethiopian War, but British opinion was strongly against starting another war against Italy to save Haile Selassie's dark skin...
...aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin. Last week Dr. Wood left no doubt that these gratings, with 210,000 lines in a space of seven inches, are the finest ever made...