Word: craniums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only injury which was received by all present with something akin to glee was suffered by one of the referees. He was struck on the cranium by a passing beercan and was forced to leave the ice for medical treatment of a gash on his baldspot...
...Moran, who seems to know quite a little on the dehydrated cranium subject, wants to be sure that nobody slips one of "those imitation goat-skin heads" over on him. "It's got to be authentic," he seriously asserts...
...thirteenth printing, "General Education In A Free Society" achieves first honors as the 1946 best seller of the Harvard University Press. Concluding a year beset by paper shortages and printing difficulties, the Press nevertheless published 46 volumes, ranging from the esoteric "Spina Bifida and Cranium Bifidum" and "Tables of the Hankel Functions of Order One-Third and of Their Derivatives" to the more popular "Boston After Bulfinch" and "Serge Koussevitzky...
...Writer Louis Adamic sent a complimentary copy of his book, Dinner at the White House (Harper), returned the compliment by suing Adamic and the publisher for libel. He also demanded that the book be taken off the stands. Adamic, in describing fellow diner Churchill, had written of his "stubborn cranium," had called him "simultaneously honest and dishonest," "a very great leader and . . . also evil," and noted "the eyes and mouth which were shrewd, ruthless, unscrupulous," but just what Churchill considered libelous was not made public. The amount of damages was left up to the jury...
Died. Dr. Charles Whitney Gilmore, 71, National Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology, who discovered and reconstructed the gigantic prehistoric Diplodocus, one of the lamest-brained creatures on record (70-to-80 ft. long, 15-to-30 tons, apple-sized cranium); after a stroke; in Washington...