Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Pather Panchali leans towards the neo-realist, its most striking scenes show Auntie's hollow, shrewd, dying face; it pictures her eating wet meal with long, bony fingers, wiping dirt off her crackled skin, hobbling pitifully around the yard. At intervals she has snarling verbal bouts with Mother, who, though warm-hearted, is not the ideal of the Ladie's Home Journal. In fact, Mother often wishes Old Auntie would drop dead...
...Armadillos," wrote Tommy Kral the other day, "are very old mammals. They have an armorlike covering formed by ossification of the greater part of the skin and of the union of bony scutes." Tommy is a 7½-year-old boy who lives on a farm near Hastings, Minn. He wrote his treatise, which he assembled from reference books, in legible longhand and in ink. The exercise was part of his schoolwork, but such assignments are hardly the usual fare for Minnesota second-graders. Neither are some of the topics the bright, assertive boy tackles with no apparent harm-parts...
...flexible polyvinyl plastic. Inside it is a disposable filter of cotton and cellulose. In this trap the surgeon's breath is both dried and filtered; the exhaled air escapes backward from the mask's wings, is almost germfree. The new mask, built to stand away from the skin, is cooler than the close-fitting, clammy gauze. And although the plastic part costs $1.50, it should save hospitals money in the long run because it can be sterilized and reused for years. The filter inserts cost only 1?, as against 18? for the throwaway gauze masks...
Medical men have been aware for half a century that X rays can be destructive to human tissue. Overdosage of X rays for benign purposes can have malignant consequences. Example: careless treatment may cure acne, but cause skin cancer. Despite this established knowledge, X rays are still being incautiously used as cure-alls...
...patients who had been treated for acne, nine developed skin cancer...