Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itch does not clear up by itself. Scratching only spreads it. The old-fashioned treatment was heroic: sulfur ointment-which often caused another kind of skin eruption-and boiling sheets! and clothes (now known to be unnecessary) every time they were used. In recent years dermatologists have been curing itchers with benzyl benzoate, which causes less rash. They are now experimenting with a concoction of DDT, benzyl benzoate to kill the mites and a secret ingredient which kills the eggs, in the skin-deep burrows...
...that Russian aggressive policies are somehow caused by the fact that in the U.S. people are always grossly hurting Russian feelings. In a chapter called Getting Along with Russia, Scott offers some do's and don'ts whereby Americans may spare the easily abraded Russian skin. Americans who are reasonably sure that Russian policy is seldom motivated by hurt feelings and reasonably fed up with Soviet truculence may wish that Author Scott would write a similar book of etiquette for Russians...
Poet W. H. Auden on plays (The Dog Beneath the Skin; Ascent of F-6). In 1930 Isherwood went to Berlin, emerged later with his third novel, The Last of Mr. Norris, and a volume of stories, Goodbye to Berlin, that established him as one of Britain's most talented story tellers. In 1939 he landed in Hollywood, where he has divided his time between scriptwriting and translating Hindu religious teachings (BhagavadGita, The Song of God-TIME...
...last week's Journal, of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia's Dr. Erich Urbach described a few patients who evidently had diabetes, but whose symptoms were only skin deep. Both blood and urine were normal, but their skins broke out, or itched, and gave a high sugar test. The diagnostic clincher: their skins cleared up after diabetic treatment (insulin and diet...
...definitely-though not violently-poisonous. It should not be breathed or kept near the skin. After working with it, hands should be washed with soap. Only special dust mixtures should be used on pets or human beings...