Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue. She was captured and killed in 1907. Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History placed on exhibition her remains, whalebone and all-largest skeleton of the species ever to pass under the scrutiny of Science...
After 28 years in the museum's storehouses and preparation rooms, the skeleton was hung from the ceiling by seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...
...Another skeleton boldly rattled by Banker Baker was New York Title & Mortgage, a former subsidiary divorced before the guaranteed mortgage scandal broke. New York Title's rehabilitator is suing for various sums including dividends paid to the Manhattan Co. after the title company's capital was allegedly impaired. Mr. Baker did not seem worried...
...dulled by the long ordeal of a week ago. Both physically and mentally the Blue is far off the peak which it reached on the eve of the clash with the Tiger, while Harvard's young team impressed observers with its optimism and cheerfulness as it ran through a skeleton practice today...
From the British Museum to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has come the fifteen-foot skeleton of a False Killer whale, a species known to science until fifteen years ago only by its fossilized skull...