Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rays made of the Metropolitan's mummy collection. The plates showed that inside its wrappings the mummy of Wah was wearing a necklace of spherical beads, apparently gold or silver; another necklace of larger beads, apparently of silver; a third one of amethyst, carnelian or faience and a fourth which appeared to be of cylindrical stone beads. Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently of stone, and an oval seal ring. Unwrapping a mummy without destroying it is ticklish business, but Director Winlock plans to try it in order...
...Chicago Times Lawyer Clarence Darrow wrote: "I don't know what Christmas is all about anyhow. I think it is a humbug. ... As a holiday the Fourth of July had it beat a mile. On the Fourth I used to get up right after midnight to shoot off anvils. It made a loud sound. It was a lot of fun. Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow...
...very much lighter vein-and this cousin Newbold reserved for the fourth daily installment of his account, tucking it away unobtrusively-King Edward later evinced what seemed to be the part-owner of the Star a sense of humor "American" rather than "English." His Majesty was graciously pleased to utter to Mrs. Simpson's second cousin by marriage these words, related by Cousin Newbold as a merry royal jest...
...considers the abdication of Edward VIII a wise decision without precedent in the interests of the British Empire. No longer lecturing, working only with graduate students, popular, retiring Professor Andrews at 73 looks forward to publishing the third volume of The Colonial Period in American History next March, the fourth in 1938. Beyond that he says he can promise nothing...
...bear, deer, rhinoceros, hyenas and rodents of the early Glacial Age. He also appeared to be a cannibal especially fond of eating from the head, since the heads discovered seemed to have been severed from their trunks. No traces of tools or fire were discovered. The third and fourth skulls found this year were buried ten feet lower than the first two, were therefore considered to be more ancient. To Dr. Weidenreich's delight, they were both mature, as indicated by the closing of the cranial sutures. The fifth skull he last week pronounced the oldest human fossil ever...