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...them, recently excavated by Dr. William H. Sears of the University of Georgia, is called "Mound D" by archeologists. What the Indians called it may never be known, but the tale of its building must have scared many generations of prehistoric children. Mound D was the scene of the goriest funeral ever held in the state of Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Funeral in Georgia | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...Which runs Dick Tracy, goriest of the newspaper strips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not So Funny | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...closets they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Rue Le Sueur | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Acres of Death. But the Air Ministry's huge Berlin map already blossoms with scarlet blotches, indicating areas where the bombs have finished their work. Goriest blotch of all centers on the Tiergarten district, where some 60% of the jampacked Government bureaus and offices have been destroyed. Dead, burned-out suburbs almost surround this area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Not Dead Yet | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Tony Galento had won the goriest knockdown & drag-out since the days of the last-century bully boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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