Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tanqueray to Wyoming by building the Capitol Avenue House. It had burned, although Gentleman Gambler "Old Tom" Heany had for a time made a very respectable gambling house from the remains. Senator Warren passed the red-brick schoolhouse, the Elks Club house, bumped bustling Babbitts, paused before the skeleton of an impressive modern building - his new theatre, which will open this winter. Manhattan producers are pleased to have a stopping-off place between Denver and California. Soon stage-effects will gleam where once campfires flickered. Again half-clad dancers will leap while "Bom!" goes the drum...
...certain chemicals" at the fork) by which one of his geologists, one Charles Udall, located a mammoth's shoulder blade near Arivaca. Diviner Udall's thimble contained something sensitive to lime deposits. The stick dipped to outline a mammoth's tusk, a whole mammoth's skeleton, a buried dinosaur. Dr. Cummings, instead of theorizing about the instrument, proceeded to investigate further whether an important new fossil bed had been discovered...
...background, all very smooth and able, obeying all the ordinances which she had laid down. It is only when she writes travesties upon a style and a subject not hers, as in the mock Saturday Evening Post story of the professor and the mannequin, that her facility shows its skeleton. And a very good skeleton...
...years ago a Toronto writer faked a story of the discovery by two Swedish scientists, Drs. Smierkase and Butterbrod, of the skeleton of a fish large enough to have swallowed Jonah. Toronto papers refused the yarn, for "Smierkase" and "Butterbrod" too transparently mean "soft cheese" and "butter bread." However, at the Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax...
...skeleton extension of the tutorial system, the Summer School is now brought into closer connection with the College. With this adjustment, the instruction of the vacation period settles more firmly into its place in the Harvard educational system...