Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercialize it, license its use to dairies, just as it licenses Professor Steenbock's irradiation methods to drug and food manufacturers. The importance of Vitamin D lies in its power to make the body use calcium and phosphorus. The natural source of Vitamin D is the skin when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Civilized people living in northern latitudes get insufficient sunlight, hence insufficient Vitamin D. The deficiency shows up in the bones as rickets, in the teeth as decay. Primitive northern people, the Eskimo's, suffer very little from rickets or caries. They get their...
...skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight vex the victim...
...Depression and Health," January 29, "Sparing the Eyes," February 5 on "Color Changes in the Mouth and Teeth; an Aid in Diagnosis of Systemic Disease," February 19 on "Let the Head Govern the Heart," on February 26 on "Nerve, Nerves, and Nervousness," on March 5 "The Care of the Skin and Scalp," March 12 on "Cancer and Radiation Therapy," March 19, "The Tuberculosis Problem Today," March 26 on "A Discussion of the Common Cold...
GALSWORTHY (John) Skin Game...
...himself when angry Jinny sets de Grammont on him to provoke him into a fight. But, lightweight that he may be. de Grammont is a perfect gentleman, sees that Jinny really loves Colpoys still. When the troopers surround them the Frenchman makes good the others' escape, saves his skin by great presence of mind and highly ingenious lying, lives to get a grateful letter from Jinny, now Mrs. Colpoys, on her way to the Quaker Plantations...