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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, May 1--The varsity baseball team muddled through to an 8-6 victory at Columbia this afternoon, in what must surely rate as one of the worst-played games since they moved the sport out of the cow pastures and onto the skin diamonds...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Baseball Team Wins Two Contests As Princeton, Columbia Nines Bow | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...paddle-wheel satellite is designed to make the most of the sun's energy. Its main body will be a 28-in. sphere covered with a thin metal skin. Out of it will protrude four paddlelike surfaces carried on branching supports and arranged in such a way that one of them will always face fairly accurately toward the sun. Both surfaces of the paddles will be covered with a mosaic of cells made of thin sheets of a photoelectric material (probably silicon) that turns sunlight into electricity. The paddles will be folded when the satellite is in the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Educated Satellites | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...fair control in 14%. For chlorpropamide and metahexamide, the proportions were about the same-but not the patients: some who did poorly on tolbutamide responded to one of the other drugs, and a few who failed on two responded to the third. There was no denying that side effects (skin rashes, nausea, vomiting, heartburn) were more common with chlorpropamide and metahexamide, and there were a few cases of liver damage. Concluded cautious Dr. Bradley: "Further cautious trial appears justified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pills for Diabetes | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rays & Bone Marrow | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...equal before God. One notable exception: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Book of Mormon teaches that the colored races are descendants of the evil children of Laman and Lemuel, who impiously warred against the good children of Nephi and received their pigmented skin as punishment. Last week a Utah State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights drew on this Mormon scripture in a scathing report on the state of the tiny nonwhite minority in Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons & Civil Rights | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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