Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line running across the head from ear to ear. At each junction of the ear-to-ear line and the slits in the scalp, Drs. Freeman & Watts drill a hole with a dentist's bur. The bur holes permit passage of a leucotome, or lobotomy cannula, a hollow needle through which a loop of wire can be slipped...
Arizona. Huge, beaked reptiles gliding on batlike wings, the pterosaurs reached their greatest size in the Chalk Age (60-130 million years ago), achieved wingspreads up to 30 feet. These hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...
...place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism are that when the beams (actually wood) strike something they emit a hollow thump instead of a ringing clank, and that when the inevitable victim falls from the crane to his death, a ludicrous dummy is seen tumbling against the backdrop...
...other copies of the Greyhounds caused Sculptor Diederich a little embarrassment. One was sold to a Turk who was furious to discover that the bronze was hollow. The other remained in Diederich's studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into...
...twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of The Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian...