Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25 lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
Ashes, It was 3 o'clock on the morning after the discovery of his child's crumpled body that Col. Lindbergh drove up a Trenton alley and went into the frame morgue building. When he looked at the remains, one report said, he fainted. He asked for a lock of his child's hair. Next afternoon he returned to make an official identification of the remains. Then, as mute housewives watched over their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through...
Depression drove President Hoover to put Reparations back again into politics with his Moratorium (TIME, June 29 et seq.) Thereupon German payments ceased and BIZ would have had to shut up shop had it been only or mainly the cash register of Reparations. Instead BIZ has never been busier than at present and is today the World Bank. In softly burring Scotch last week BIZ President McGarrah announced a BIZ profit of 15,182,819 Swiss francs ($2.930,000) or 4,000,000 Swiss francs ($772,000) more than last year...
...starboard cable broke. The Akron rolled to port like a porpoise. As the ship lurched, 100 sailors in the port ground crew dragged with all their might. Some even climbed up the grab lines the better to hold down the bouncing ship.* A sudden blast of air drove the ship up, jerked the crew into the air. Most of them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared not let go. Struggling to keep their grip, they lashed...
Migrating monkeys swarmed screeching into the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last week, disturbed the repose of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and Lady Willingdon, made more trouble for the police than do St. Gandhi's non-violent Nationalists. Treating the monkeys exactly like Gandhites, police riot squads drove them out of town with lathis (long staves) every day. But every night the monkeys crept back to plague New Delhi, caused the United Press to report that "monkeys dominated the city...