Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present age, however, is not apt to recognize the validity of curses. Mr. Edward P. Gaston of Chicago, at any rate, doesn't care what the religious have to say. He intends to dig up the skeleton of Pocahontas, the tender-hearted Indian girl, of whom he claims to be a direct descendant. He has already gone so far as to disinter more than a hundred skeletons, and to measure their skulls in the hope of being able to recognize his Indian ancestress. Of these skulls he has selected three or four for future reference, while Canon E. Lionel Gedge...
...human skeleton was found near Dallas, Texas, in a fossil bed believed to be of the Pleistocene (ice) age (about 300,000 years ago). Many authorities think it belongs to a more modern type...
...course is lost when the regular exercises are shirked. No set of notes on Physics or Mathematics, for example could be of real value, even for such an artificial crisis as an examination; and in courses of History or Literature they can serve at best only as a skeleton. There is no reason why the Faculty should continue to tolerate the selling of objectionable notes, and note-traders will do well to limit themselves to legitimate fields...
...administration of the regular army, but is planned as the fundamental frame-work of the regulars, the reserves, and the potentials,--these last being the "citizen soldiery" to be built up on the standing army as a nucleus. There is no question that the plan of a "skeletonized army", if successful, is far more to be desired, than a large standing army; but in order to have it successful it is important that the bones of the skeleton should neither be too few nor too disorganized to support the weight of the body which is to be formed around them...
...took a moment for our eyes to adjust themselves in the dim light. Then all at once we discovered, in a standing posture, leaning against the wall, a human skeleton. His hands were upraised grasping a rope of twisted bark. Far above, in the shadows, we could make out the metal of a huge bell. The clapper, which had fallen to the floor, was worn with long usage...