Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest the Kuomintang cheer up too much and start a spending orgy, Dr. Soong spoke ominously of "facing an apparent deficit for 1933 of $40,000,000." By the most extreme economy, which he called "cutting Government expenses to a skeleton," Dr. Soong hopes but does not predict that China's budget may be made to balance next year at about...
...information about the National Research Council and their desire to be notified of discoveries of fossils. Would you kindly furnish me with their address? From time to time we discover fossils, many of which would probably be of interest to the Council. Only recently we discovered portions of a skeleton of a dinosaur which has been identified as that of a Trachadon-sometimes called the Duckbill Dinosaur. It is unusual because of the vast number of teeth in the skull-over 2,000-new ones coming out as the old ones wear down. This is the second or third skeleton...
Phar Lap was not stuffed. Jonas Brothers, New York taxidermists, used his skeleton as the armature for a sculptured clay model. From this they made a mold. Like a sculptor who transfers his clay model to bronze, they transferred theirs to a specially treated paper, hollow and light but strong. On this the skin was stretched after chemical treatment to insure the permanence of its lustre. Many a wild beast has been mounted in this manner, but Phar Lap was the first horse. Sysonby, great racehorse of 25 years ago, was stuffed, is now in Manhattan's American Museum...
...stuffed shirt was literally what they were honoring. When Jeremy Bentham, famed economist-philosopher, died at 84, he left to the University of London his body, to be dissected in the presence of friends. In his will he provided that "my skeleton will be caused to be put together in such a manner as that the whole figure may be seated in the chair usually occupied by me when living, in the attitude in which I was sitting when engaged in thought." Jeremy Bentham's bones were dressed up in his own garments, topped off with a wax effigy...
...this reduction was taken advantage of by the Marine Research Laboratory, when it proceeded to file a report for 10 dozen Squalers, large plain, at a cost of $110. In one of the folders, which were revealed when the cabinets were opened, was the record for one skeleton of a bullfrog in a glass case at $15, while, at the same time, the Medical School sent in its inventory containing an item for $15,000 worth of necessary chemicals...