Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...places. Look around the Union and you'll see them; recognize them by their clothes, their hair-cuts, the way they use their hands. Brilliant scholars, lots of these, every fourth man the head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...
Burns. Standard treatment for burns, whether caused by incendiary bombs, mustard gas or lewisite, is application of tannic-acid dressings. Where tannic acid is not available, strong, lukewarm tea is a good substitute. Tannic-acid compresses must be left undisturbed for two or three weeks, until new skin forms. Victims of mustard gas must have their clothes carefully removed, must be "decontaminated" with soap, clean water and sodium bicarbonate, rubbed with a paste of bleaching powder and water, successful antidote for the oily gas. Then routine tannic-acid treatment follows. Mustard gas can remain on the skin for ten minutes...
...agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils, middle ear inflammations, mastoid infections and sinusitis that afflict thousands of swimmers every summer. Water "macerates" delicate skin, washes away protective mucous in the nose, opens up "avenues of infection" for staphylococci and other virulent bacteria. To prevent serious infections, Dr. Taylor offered the following aquatic tips for terrestrials...
What does make darker races darker is a larger proportion of fine, microscopic granules of black melanin scattered throughout the upper layers of their skin. In upper skin layers melanin disintegrates, turns into melanoid, the other pigment discovered in the skin by Drs. Edwards and Duntley. Everybody has some melanin and melanoid in his skin, but blonds have less than brunets, white women less than white men, white races less than dark races...
...melanin content increased in the subjects studied in the following order: Japanese, Hindu, mulatto and Negro," said the scientists. "Our studies do not support the theories that the pigmentation of the skin in the dark races is caused by pigments which are not found in the white race...