Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silversmiths may absorb so much silver that their skin becomes slate grey. "Canary" is the name for an explosive-powder worker whose hair and skin have become red-yellow from tetryl. A foundry worker often has red-streaked forearms...
...Jungle rot," "New Guinea crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...
Suffering from exhaustion, nervousness and a chronic skin disease, she has kept to herself, spending much of her time in a shrubbery-screened garden. With her are her nephew and niece, L. K. Kung and Mrs. Rosamond Chen, children of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's onetime Minister of Finance. She has four servants. Sometimes there are visitors-old American and Chinese friends, classmates from her days at Wellesley College...
...saved by liberal use of blood plasma and careful artificial regulation of blood composition and pressure to keep him going until his skin envelope could function again. The only burn dressing was gauze smeared with vaseline. The man was back on duty three months after the accident...
...Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which the modern, democratic civilized man must fight. Each had a tonic for America's jaded summer nerves...