Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spell. Most of the city has had only a trickle of drinking water for the last two months. The ocean is bluer and greener; the sky is red at sundown; the crowds are more amorous along Copacabana beach; the open-air streetcars are slower than ever. Smells, bugs and skin diseases have multiplied. So has griping...
...ever got a divorce from Wife No. 2. He had been just too extravagant, Virginia's mother told the newspapers. Mother had had to put her foot down: "Not mink, I told him. . . . He begged so hard, I finally allowed him to buy her a seven-skin beaver . . . $1,500. . . ." Suddenly the wind shifted. Said lovelorn Virginia to the newspapermen: "I've changed my mind...
...with a touch of Westminster Abbey inside. They pointed out that some of its supports and buttresses, borrowed from European cathedrals, where they were essential parts of the structure, were pasted on to St. Pat's merely for looks. Repairs had exposed brick underpinnings; proved its marble beauty skin-deep...
...Anthrax. Primarily a disease of cattle and sheep, anthrax also attacks man, producing an infectious, often fatal, skin ailment. The only known protection: immunization by vaccine. Last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, four Army & Navy researchers announced that penicillin had cured 25 cases of anthrax in human beings...
Results of the treatment: of 55 badly burned patients, 26 (with burns covering up to 45% of their body) were healed without skin grafts, 17 needed skin grafts, twelve (nearly half of whom were 75% to 100% covered with burns) died. Among patients who recovered, healing was more rapid and required less skin grafting than under previous treatments. Previously, few patients with more than a third of the body surface burned ever survived...