Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Junghuhn states in his Die Battalander auf Sumatra that the cannibals of that region considered human flesh "better than pork." The toes and the palm of the hand were esteemed as "choice cuts," and humans are still referred to as "long...
...fill this astounding hiatus on the bookshelves of science, Dr. Arthur MacDonald, U. S. anthropologist, wrote a letter to the Lancet, printed with the editorial, asking people everywhere to describe to him just how different people die. Whether a person dies in the sweaty writhings of agony or with the weary sigh of resignation, whether he rattles with final rales or lets his breath cease gently, Dr. MacDonald wants to know. It will be interesting to know truthfully how long before death famed men devise their "last" wise words; how long before utter extinction the moribund can sense the torturing...
Followed years of gore and glory, for Mohammed entertained no silly qualms about bloodshed and brigandage for pious ends. He never went in for miracles, but calculated a paradise that Arabs would gladly die for, abundant in food, wine, ease and "full-bosomed" houris. Ignorant in most things (he once forbade the artificial fecundation of date palms, precipitating a famine), he violated Arabian chivalry by employing his brains in war; adopted entrenchment and always watched fights alertly from a safely distant hill. Militarily secure, he accomplished great pilgrimages back to the holy well, Zemzem, at Mecca. Before his death from...
Significance. The apparent "fairness" of Mr. Churchill's proposal, coming as it did from the principal die-hard Tory in the Cabinet, was shrewdly calculated to benefit the Conservative Party at the next election. Aside from its political aspects, the plan has the advantage of opening an entirely new avenue of escape from the coal dilemma down which both miners and owners can travel without loss of amour-propre...
...Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...