Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Maine showed that Cuvier was wrong. Dr. Dove's own researches had revealed that at birth the horn buds were not attached to the skull but were independent "centres of ossification." Accordingly, he decided to try making a unicorn of a day-old Ayrshire. Flaps of skin containing the horn cores were cut out and the cores were joined in the centre, at the top end of the suture in the bone...
...nothing to recommend him except his hulk. Apparently some seventy or eighty thousand residents of Milwaukee think otherwise It must be a great source of satisfaction to you and to Mayor Hoan that after 20 years of service he was only able to be elected by the skin of his teeth...
...human being by means of a new procedure appeared last week in the American Journal of Cancer. The patient, a woman dying from recurrent cancer of the breast, came to the attention of Dr. Mendel Jacobi of Brooklyn. Dr. Jacobi injected a small quantity of a solution under the skin of the woman's diseased armpit. That solution was a filtrate of Bacillus typhostis, the germ which causes typhoid fever. Twenty-four hours later Dr. Jacobi administered a second injection of the filtrate intravenously...
This procedure should have elicited the Shwartzman phenomenon, discovered by Dr. Gregory Shwartzman of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital (TIME, June 25, 1934). In the Shwartzman phenomenon the skin swiftly ulcerates where the first bacterial filtrate is injected...
Elizabeth's favor was more than a little hampering to Ralegh. While he had it. she refused to let him endanger his precious skin. While less valued sailors were chivying Spain's great Armada to its doom. Ralegh was kept chafing in London. When Sir Richard Grenville sailed on his fatal raid against the Azores, Ralegh was recalled at the last minute. But Ralegh lost Elizabeth's favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic...