Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prove himself he is now in the neighborhood of Cape Town, Cape Colony, Africa-on a two-year jaunt from Cape Town to Cairo. With him are Professor R. L. Mannen, geologist, of Texas University, and Dr. C. Ernest Cadle, head of the Denver-African Expedition...
Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...
Seizing tail, Mrs. Jackson tugged kitten from torn ear, killed kitten. Soon Dr. Frederick Adams, a Board of Health official, cut off kitten's head and sent it to the Provincial Laboratories at Toronto to be examined for rabies symptoms. Meanwhile prattling Jeanette Jackson received Pasteur treatment, did not seem to have rabies...
...went into a clinch with my head down, something I never do. I plunged forward, and my partner's head came up and butted me over the left eye, cutting me and dazing me badly...
...here is the strangest thing. Do you know what finally cleared up my head? Those seven socks to the chin Dempsey hit me in the seventh round in Chicago. From that time on I never had that tight feeling in the head or that haziness before the eyes...