Word: forehead
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...notable manner in which Hayes averted the panics following close after the Civil War. Hayes took the presidential chair only after a bitter struggle with Tilden, and with the reputation of being the only president who ever entered upon that office with the word "Fraud" stamped on his forehead. His struggles with the Senate and with the members of his cabinet, in trying to put an end to the panic that was causing so many strikes throughout the country, were hard-fought and discouraging. Before his administration had ended, however, he had put an end to the panic...
...prominent in archaeological research. The vessel, which is carefully modelled and chased, was found in an aboriginal cemetery near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Under it was a skull, with the tip of the chin just projecting through a break in the vessel. The skull, showing the receding forehead of the North American Indian, is included in the gift...