Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baudrexl with a club, locked him for hours on a balcony in midWinter, given him so little food that he was reduced to a skeleton...
United States. Indian relics, tombs, and skeletons have been excavated at widely scattered points: 1) Near Staatsburg, N. Y., skeleton and full regalia of a Munsee Indian Chief. 2) In Harlan County, Ky., by University scientists and a 14-year-old mountain girl, skeletons of 9 primitive Indians. 3) In the Burton Mound, Santa Barbara, Cal., remains of a race with remarkable tooth development ? broad incisors like horses, and no cavities. 4) At Warehouse Point, Conn., bones of an Indian of large stature. 5) On the Wet River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving...
...suffers complete loss of memory, recovers in a German hospital, is mistaken for a German and becomes a leader of post-war German thought, only to be discovered in the end by a former friend and brought back to France and his original identity−sounds somewhat like the skeleton for an ephillipsop-penheim spine-shocker. But again, as in Suzanne and the Pacific, the style is the book−as sparkling, unique and gracile as Venetian glass. The translation by Louise Collier Willcox is fairly adequate though sometimes erratic. SINBAD−C. Kay Scott-Seltzer ($2.00). Greenwich Village...
...City of Gothenburg to gather original material for this exhibit. The work began in 1915. One expedition under Dr. Giorg Sarauw, director of the archaeological section of the Gothenburg Museum has combed the Swedish west coast and gathered more than 20,000 objects. Among these is a well preserved skeleton believed to belong to the neolithic period and to be not less than 5000 years old, found near Kungsbacka, a small ancient village near Gothenburg. Another is the tomb of a woman, at least 2000 years old, found at Ytter-Rostad...
...dial consists of a great gong, under which there are a certain number of human bones and skulls. When the hands point to one o'clock some of the bones unite to form a skeleton which?actuated by hidden mechanism?springs to its feet, seizes a wooden mallet and strikes the gong a single blow. The skeleton than collapses into pieces...