Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healing dose is "measured by the 100th parts of a cubic centimeter" of ACS, injected under a patient's skin or into a vein. Two doses may last a lifetime. Large doses are harmful and are never used. Minute amounts make tissue activity speed up. Professor Bogomoletz believes that probable longevity goes with each dose, no matter for what reason it is given...
Sick with "armor fever," Manstein and his teammates brought up huge 60-ton "Tiger" tanks (Mark VI) and 70-ton "Ferdinand" self-propelled guns. Smaller tanks were given an extra skin of armor. In all, 17 tank and 18 infantry divisions were massed for the summer drive, Russians said this was history's highest ratio of tanks to infantry...
...order, his tribesmen did not follow, lest their spoor disclose the king's whereabouts to the white man. When Lobengula learned that his people had surrendered, he built a great fire and threw upon it the leather ring of his authority, his girdles, his sporran of blue monkey skin. Then he said to the chosen few who were with...
...accurately described a mole on Mrs. Hancock's hip, Judge Leibowitz began to investigate, soon unearthed evidence that Goldman's story might be true. Thereupon the judge called in a psychologist and tested Goldman with a psychogalvanometer which, by recording electrical impulses in a man's skin, is supposed to show whether he answers questions truthfully. The lie detector gave Goldman 100% and Judge Leibowitz gave him his freedom...
...pass trash for truth. It tells of a torpedoed Negro seaman (Canada Lee) who lands on a Jap-held South Pacific island. Having been pushed around for years in the U.S., Sam is cynical and rancorous, indifferent to who wins the war, delighted that, because of his dark skin, he can pose as a native. He finds a pretty Negro missionary girl and becomes a contented lotus-eater...