Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around the Skeleton. An interested spectator at the Civil War balloon experiments was a young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
...Summer News is managed by a skeleton crew of editors from the Harvard CRIMSON, the term-time University daily...
...played out onscreen as a sort of parenthesis to the main action. Dads, really a prosaic accountant, is shown as an embezzler who, "desperate for just a little snooky-ookums," squanders his company's loot on his secretary. Auntie is a dipso who makes love to a skeleton. The family doctor is a leering, lolloping office Lothario. Mums is carrying on with her driving instructor, and the authoress herself is driven to wicked ways in the big city...
Before closing the site in early September, the researchers had extracted the near-perfect skeleton of the mammoth, and bones of an elk, a deer, a wolf, and a huge pre-historic bison from the muck. Of even more significance than the spectacular mammoth bones, parts of stone knives were found which give indications that the mammoth was killed by manlike beings more than 12,000 years ago. The artifacts are among the earliest remains of man found in the Rocky Mountain region...
...design for a child's toy. It consisted of six columns, three horizontal concrete slabs, a cantilevered staircase-and that was all. But the simple plan for the Domino house contained a principle that was to be basic to all of his planning thereafter. The six-column skeleton relieved the facades and the interior walls of support functions: they could thus be moved and molded at will, giving the architect all the prerogatives of the sculptor. The Domino houses were never built, but they "enabled us to say: 'There are no walls in the house. What shall...