Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard University has the "most perfect" human skeleton somewhere in its closet, and Carroll M. Williams, association professor of Zoology, would like to know exactly where...
...Economic Cooperation Administration has written Williams--on behalf of a leading Portugese sculptor--asking for the photographs of "the most beautiful human skeleton in the world . . . that of a healthy man, who was developed in a perfect manner...
...help, but there was still the danger of Europe's being overrun by Red armies. Against this threat, after two long, critical years of interminable negotiating, Acheson and the foreign ministers had reached agreement at Brussels on military unity, and picked a supreme commander to lead a skeleton army. Western Europeans were war-weary, right next door to the enemy, and had good reason to be in a funk. The question was whether a different Secretary of State might have done more to rally them...
...There wasn't even a skeleton organization around to enforce full controls.* But by this week there was such a round of price and wage boosts that the urge to impose across-the-board controls -whether it made strict economic sense or not-had become almost irresistible...
...medical certificate was a likeness of the balding, bearded Dr. Warren. At either side was a grotesque dangling skeleton. At the bottom was a drawing of a surgeon, performing some sort of abdominal dissection upon a corpse with instruments faintly similar to oyster knives. The slashed end of a hemp rope dangled from the edge of the table. The other end of the rope was still fastened in a noose about the corpse's neck...