Word: carcasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrews and James Lippitt Clark, another youngster who later became a crack field man for the Museum, went out to Amagansett where the carcass had been beached. The whalers took the blubber and the scientists bought the rest for $3,200. The skeleton remained imbedded in 50 tons of flesh. The weather was bitter cold...
Some fishermen were hired to hack the flesh away with knives. Progress was slow. Day followed dreary winter day. A storm blew up, covered beach and carcass with a brawling smother of surf. Toiling waist-deep in the icy water, Andrews and Clark made fast the carcass as best they could. When the weather cleared the precious remains were finally found buried deep in the sand...
...Agriculture, black Aberdeen Anguses had waddled off with every top and reserve (second place) prize in every one of the interbreed classes: best 4-H steer (raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total of ten top carcass prizes in both light and heavy classes. Named Grand Champion Steer?foremost prize of the show?was Campus Idol, a black raised on Iowa State College's farm, whence had come, in former years, four other Grand Champions. Two days later Campus Idol...
...more prominent institutions. Mr. Valentine's capable article is phrased carefully in a series of rhetorical questions while Professor Friedrich has not hesitated to state the problem succinctly in a recent Atlantic Monthly as follows, "A doctor must spend months on end bent over an evil-smelling carcass, dissecting it with his own hands" while a lawyer has to master the "dry-as-dust mass of legal lore which may be and probably is utterly repellent to his active, dramatic nature. Unless he possesses self-discipline, and a good measure of it, he cannot get his degree...
...Cooper had a stooped oldster wheeling a cart through a narrow Paris street. A gingerbread corner store with bright green shades by Grace Thorp Gomberling was typical of Philadelphia's outskirts. Leon Kelly's Interior of a Slaughter House showed two men dwarfed by a large gory carcass...