Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Sandy Saddler, an animated skeleton who has changed prizefighting into assault with all available weapons-feet, forearms, elbows and head-pummeled an overmatched contender named Red Top Davis for 15 rounds, and hung on to what passes for the featherweight championship of the world...
Last week, in the midst of Bangkok's frenetic preconference housecleaning, the Phibun government did its best to remove the skeleton from Ananda's closet by executing three Siamese vaguely convicted of "complicity" in his murder. The three were the late King's pages, Busya Patamasirind, 50, and Chit Singhaseni, 44, who discovered the body, and the King's former secretary, Chaliew Pathumros, who had been fired a month before the King's death. At 5 o'clock one morning last week, fortified with a final bottle of orange squash apiece, the three were...
Despite these gaps, however, Far Eastern studies at Harvard are strong by comparison with most universities, and the skeleton of an extensive research program does exist. Chinese history and Far Eastern languages and anthropology are already well-staffed, and the present East Asia Regional Studies program gives graduate students both an M.A. and a vestible look at the immense problems of the Far East. In addition, Harvard's physical plant is uniquely suited to pursue further research; a special library of over 250,000 volumes is available in the Yenching Institute in Boylston Hall...
Leverett House was the victim of economy and the machine age yesterday, as 17 maids left their posts for the last time. A skeleton crew of two remains to clean House offices, common rooms and the libraries, but students will face the student porters next Monday. The eightman crew, armed with compressor tanks and detergent, will scour bathrooms, bedrooms, and studies weekly...
After 10 p.m. and on Sundays the Library will offer only minimum service. Only a skeleton staff will be employed, and the Woodberry Poetry Room will be closed...