Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been discovered yet, but the very presence of Spinachanthropus itself indicates that he must have had a father, which in turn must have had a father and so on. Spinachseed is confident that he will not have to look too far back for this ancestral form, because Spinachanthropus's forehead would not stand much more recession...
Doctors have not been able to prevent or cure microcephaly. A few bold surgeons tried splitting too solid skulls lengthwise from forehead to nape, and holding the halves slightly apart with temporary metal wedges. But baby heads grow most from front to rear. Such operations gave room for a short time only for the side-thrust of the growing brain, and most patients shortly died...
...representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous official London fully believed the German occupation of Austria was taking place, and at the British Foreign Office it was said that when Lord Halifax became convinced he clutched his forehead like a man distracted, exclaimed: "Horrible! Horrible! I never thought they would...
...skin itself. The reaction is a kind of bad habit, according to Dr. Bernstein, and hard to break. One of his patients, whom he cites as example, broke out in hives every time she recalled the time a burglar robbed her bedroom. Bleeding of the hands, feet, chest and forehead of religious ecstatics, corresponding to the Crucifixion wounds, are the result of hysteria, writes Dr. Bernstein, and "represent an identification with Christ on the part of the patient." Another of Dr. Bernstein's cases was a remorseful young wife who itched on those parts of her body which...
Mathilde von Freytag-Loringhoven, who taught Kurwenal, is a motherly woman who looks something like Napoleon, with wisps of hair on her broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...