Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lucky thing for anthropology that Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ah-leesh hurd-leech-ka), famed fossil man of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Moscow last week. A young Soviet archeologist named A. P. Okladnikoff announced the discovery of a fossilized Neanderthal skeleton on a high cliff in "Middle Asia." The bones were those of a child eight or nine years...
...detail was a one room building of local sandstone, dated 1784-the oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself were: 1) a full-scale reconstruction of a Tibetan lamasery altar; 2) fine lace and silverware; 3) "The Human Body & Its Care," an exhibit featuring a skeleton; 4) American "primitive'' paintings; 5) 200 electrically driven, slow-motion models showing all the physical principles used "in the art and science of mechanics'"; 6) a retrospective show of paintings by burly, grey-haired Joseph Stella, one of the first and most gifted "modern" U. S. artists...
Over Portland, Ore. one day last week buzzed a trim two-motored airplane that outwardly looked like any other U. S. aircraft, but inwardly was as different as a hickory basket from a ship's hull. For while the skeleton of other planes is built up of longitudinal braces, bulkheads and stringers, the framework of this Greenwood-Yates Geodetic Bi-Craft is woven of spruce strips. It resembles nothing more than a woven basket covered with fabric to keep out the breeze, powered with two 50-h.p. engines to pull it through the air. Its structure is called geodetic...
...Willard and Doughty have been serving quite consistently as counters, while Lewis, Ferris, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Wilcox have seen action as substitutes and may well be the skeleton of next year's ton. Of the Seniors, Ralph Livingston and Hammond have been the mainstays...
...Washington, D. C. the U. S. Treasury Department's Procurement Division sought "one male human skeleton, with bones of a single individual." Specifications: removable arms, legs, feet, skull, one removable hand, one horizontal skull cut. Purpose: exhibition at the Marine Hospital, St. Louis...