Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drug has some toxic effects on man (vomiting, a skin rash), but Dr. Brown thinks they are not so bad as mumu...
Bill was a true seeker after knowledge. His burning power of pure rationalization often startled a listener out of his skin. He never posed or preached. But he seemed to invite the tormenting ridicule of many who could not understand him, and he was sensitive. Had conditions been different, the contemporary world might have been a gainer...
...fine-ground, bulletlike pellets. Far from a bomb's concussion center, well beyond the range of missiles caught up in its cyclonic force, Londoners found themselves caught in terrible gusts of shattered and pulverized glass. If the blast caught a man near a window, he could lose the skin and flesh of his face and eyelids. Often the glass would drive deep into eyes...
...investigators also found that DDT can be absorbed through the skin. But in the diluted, powdered form in which DDT is usually used, it does not seem to be harmful: despite its wide use as a debusing powder in the war theaters, no case of DDT poisoning has yet been reported. The doctors' conclusion: DDT is "a definite health hazard," should be used with care...
...Authors Campbell and Robinson agitated literary teacups by asserting that Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth was only "an Americanized recreation, thinly disguised" of Finnegans Wake (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942). Retorted Playwright Wilder: "All I can say is to urge those who are interested to read Finnegans Wake and make up their minds for themselves...