Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much-enduring, much-lamenting Job could have had his afflictions diagnosed by a modern doctor, one of them might have turned out to be "independent cutaneous glycohistechia." A simpler name for it: "skin diabetes...
Ordinary diabetics have surplus sugar in the blood and urine. Fairly common diabetic symptoms are an itching skin or boils and sores. Analysis may show too much sugar in the skin...
...woman's shoe?'' (Ans.: 10½-you always subtract 3 2 from the French measure to get the American size.) . . . "What is a kangaroo's pouch lined with?" (When we checked the Bronx Zoo on that one we got our ears pinned back with "Skin, of course. What d'ya expect, nylon...
...brand-new commercial product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks in the bow and stern. Grumman is now turning out the first order for 1,000 canoes, has orders in the offing for another...
Under Elia Kazan's (The Skin of Our Teeth, Jacobowsky and the Colonel) able direction, a good cast works hard and well. Topping it, in the role of the Senator's younger daughter, is Stage Designer Norman Bel Geddes' charming, 22-year-old daughter Barbara. With only a brief career of small parts behind her, she may well stand out as the best ingenue of the season...