Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beady little eyes and perfect features--that's what makes an excellent shrunken human head, according to R. Victor Moran '50 who is now willing to pay as much as $80 for a truly good specimen...
...been getting plenty of answers to a recent ad in the CRIMSON. Apparently the shrunken head game is a bigger one than the public realizes, for more than one reply comes from Cambridge itself, where the layman considers these curios not exactly run-of-the-mile objects. Other answers place more of these little leathery skulls in Texas and South America where they are closer to home...
...ever gets tired of bowing before his altar and its shrunken human contents, Moran explains that maybe some relatives would like the head as a paper weight for Christmas. If not, he adds, they certainly will be eager to get it at one of the University museums, where people can come in and laugh at the ridiculous taste of the Jibaro tribes...
...members. It was evident that Premier Schuman, who was recently photographed at a carnival gaily throwing balls, had thrown much more than that at French Communism. He had not only beaten the insurrection; he had shaken the patriotic and moderate elements of French labor out of Red control. The shrunken C.G.T. could not be a nightmare any longer; it could only be a nuisance...
...Shrunken appreciably by the loss of five key men, the Varsity will have to count on Captain Huna Rosenfeld, Johnny Cogan, and Bill Baker today when it attempts to notch its first Ivy victim of the season...