Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Streptothricin can be given by vein, injection under the skin, or by mouth...
...Sophia Jane. At 85 she retired to a little cabin, wrapped a blue bandanna about her head, smoked a corncob for the first time and thought about the 13 children she had borne (eleven had died). Sometimes she worried over what God would say when he saw her black skin. "Nonsense!" snapped Grand mother Sophia Jane. "He sees only souls. . . . Of course you're going to Heaven...
...Auden Circle." Like most original poets, Auden experimented constantly with the styles and techniques of his predecessors-Donne, Blake, Byron, Housman, Yeats, Rilke. He wrote sharply satirical leftish poems (The Orators, The Dance of Death), co-authored verse dramas with Isherwood (The Ascent of F6, The Dog Beneath the Skin), edited anthologies (The Oxford Book of Light Verse), turned out some of the most sparkling verse of his time, wrote highly personal witty reports on his travels in Iceland and China (Letters from Iceland, Journey...
With the deterioration of Japanese air and naval power, the CVEs-Casablancas, Bogues and Sangamons-began to assume a new role. In spite of their slowness, thin skin, light armament, they were thrown into front-line jobs...
...cockroach, which outlived the dinosaur and many other prehuman contemporaries, has evolved into a superbug of almost incredible staying power. Its hard, slippery body is hard to grasp; its flat torso permits it to squeeze into the smallest cracks; its nimble legs give it unparalleled speed and shiftiness; its skin is so sensitive to light that even when blinded it infallibly finds a dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known creature that can live without vitamin...