Word: ovoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since they had to do without human skulls, the researchers, led by Edward R. Dye, started out with hens' eggs-which, Dye explained, are roughly equivalent, for experimental purposes. Both are about the same shape (ovoid), and both consist of a rigid, fragile shell containing gelatinous material. Eggs will break when dropped four inches on a hard surface, skulls about four feet. But skulls and eggs crack about the same...