Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Cincinnati announced perfection of a substitute technique. Dr. Louis George Hermann, assistant professor of surgery, sprinkles flakes of chopped skin upon raw wounds. The skin cells take root, seedlike, in the moist raw surface, absorb nutriment, proliferate. In a short time the islands of growing skin touch each other, merge and make a sightly new skin. Dr. Hermann finds that which way the skin flakes fall does not matter. Like plant seeds they orient themselves, grow outward from their "soil...
...their own hospitals in Latin American countries. Nursing is fair-better in the private than in the public institutions served by kindly but inefficient nuns. National medical journals, supplemented by the Spanish edition of the American Medical Association's Journal and by European journals, keep local practitioners in touch with current medical progress. The profession, however, does not seem sufficiently alert and disinterested to prevent the sale of quack cure-alls. Latin America is the patent medicine man's happiest hunting ground...
Whom asked to compare the drawings of the two artists Durer and Holbein the Younger, Dr. Kuhn said that in his opinion Holbein's portraits were completely objective, very exact, and distinctly unemotional, whereas Durer always attempted to endow his subject with a personal touch, almost an appearance of pent-up emotion...
...because the work of only six artists was shown. Why are only the paintings and drawings of a few unfamiliar artists hung; where are the sketches done by their friends during lecture hour, they ask. In answer they assume that the directors made no serious attempt to get in touch with the great number of talented undergraduates. The walls are sparsely covered with the paintings of the first half dozen they...
...summer; that all the major exhibitors are leaving next year to study art elsewhere; that only one up perclassman was shown, other Juniors and Seniors of artistic leanings having, long since departed. If the Editors of the CRIMSON feel that insufficient effort has hitherto been made to get in touch with all the students of Harvard and Radcliffe who dabble, in oils, or make sketches during lecture hour, the directors welcome their cooperation and advice. They sincerely hope many mute inglorious Picassos are found languishing unsung over mantelpieces or stowed away in closets...