Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Infantry has 57,286 enlisted men, 3,568 officers in 36 skeleton regiments, two tank regiments. Blue-eyed, able Chief of Infantry George A. Lynch admits that the U. S. Infantry's organization is outmoded by foreign armies, tells his officers to think hard and fast. Meanwhile, the Infantry's equipment is excellent in type, deficient in quantity...
...their sessions the Esperantists discussed only one thing: how to popularize their synthetic lingo. Though the League boasts more than 1,500,000 Esperantists all over the world, Esperanto has been threatened for four years by the popularity of Basic English, the skeleton tongue (vocabulary: 850 words) designed by Orthologer Charles Kay Ogden. Esperanto in Esperanto means "one who hopes." The somewhat frantic hope of last week's Kongreso in Londono, Anglujo, was that Esperanto should not become a dead language before it ever showed real signs of life in either of its intended capacities...
...head. The theft was discovered eleven years later when Haydn's remains were disinterred and buried more imposingly in the neighboring town of Eisenstadt. Pressed by the police, the skull-collectors delivered up a skull which was promptly attached to the rest of Haydn's skeleton and reburied. But the skull thus surrendered was not Haydn...
...skeleton is in stratified clay of an ancient glacial lake. This poor girl, whose teeth are quite projecting, was drowned in the waters of this lake over 20,000,000 years ago. A dagger is beside her body. This may be the first great American tragedy...
...comeuppance delivered by the Mexican Government to His Majesty's Government three weeks ago. when Mexico jibed that even great powers like Britain were behind in payment of debts, dragged the skeleton of Britain's $4,000,000,000 War debt to the U. S. out of its seven-year closet. Last week. 37-year-old Conservative M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who five months ago accused President Roosevelt of precipitating the current stock-market decline, appealed to the Commons to send a "really authoritative mission" to Washington to negotiate a War debt settlement, "if necessary to restore...