Word: dissect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hrdlička, who a fortnight ago predicted intellectualized human hobgoblins of the future (TIME, April 29), and last week declined to dissect his dead friend (see below), eyed his Academy colleagues and told them that they were on the average more robust and healthy than the average U. S. citizen, that their heads as well as their minds were bigger...
...shall leave it to you, men of Harvard, to handle the glistening notes and bonds on Wall Street. We shall leave it to you to dissect anatomies and excavate ancient Egyptian tombs. We do not intend to pour forth stirring speeches at the bar or pleading editorials from the press. We will choose, instead, to mould...
...behind the book is more willing to learn than ever before, but the man behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy the cry of modern educationists for research, and more research! And so the instructor, who alone should be best fitted for presenting facts to his students, is dodging the issue with long assignments of reading to be tested by reports...
Amid so much furor, few South Africans had time to dissect and rationalize their new flag. Basically it is a horizontal tricolor, reading from top to bottom orange, white and blue. In the centre of the white stripe is superimposed the old Orange Free State flag, hanging vertically. Adjoining, on the white, is the Union Jack, spread toward the flagstaff. Lastly the old Transvaal vierkleur is superimposed upon the white, spreading away from the staff. Thus the new flag, which might be called the "Union Union Jack" is one big tricolor with three little flags stitched...
...when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived on the Ringling estate waiting to grow up; then to step into a feature part on the Ringling program. Last week scientists at Johns Hopkins University waited eagerly for her dead body. They would dissect it thoroughly; study it from the point of view of evolution, comparative anatomy, brain structure; prepare the first complete study of the animal...