Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious North Carolinians dug up the grave of Peter Stuart Ney, found a skeleton about the size of Marshal Ney's, made a cast of the skull which has since disappeared. Last week in Charlotte, N. C. another group, including Charlotte's chief of detectives, announced that a battery of scientists was being assembled to make, probably next month, an exhaustive examination of Peter Ney's bones and dust. Present will be Dr. J. Edward Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal...
...cockroach gets a new skin, which serves as its skeleton, seven times before reaching maturity...
...American Museum of Natural Histoiy. Mr. Thomson was confronted with the toughest extraction job of his life. Cautiously he attacked the sandstone with needle-like awls, sharpened under a microscope that magnified them to the size of broom handles. After long months of picking and scratching, the dismembered skeleton was finally free of its matrix and the preparator sent it back to Dr. Jepsen...
...those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason for such miraculous preservation but he thought it possible that the little...
...Rome, Moscow and Berlin. . . ." Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, president of the World Baptist Alliance, countered with a thundering speech on missions : "If we Baptists sit smugly aside and prate about our orthodoxy while this mission work goes unheeded, then I say orthodoxy is a grinning, chattering skeleton!" Of Dr. Kagawa, after that mild little man had shouted one of his high-pitched, unintelligible addresses into a microphone, onetime President Monroe Elmon Dodd of the Southern Baptist Convention exclaimed: "I can only say I wish we were as good Christians as this man." Finally Northern President Franklin...