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During the Civil War, 39 leaders of the hostile Minnesota Sioux were hanged. Dr. Mayo carted off the body of an ugly brave named Cut Nose, and after dissecting him, he strung together his skeleton, used it to teach his young sons anatomy. About this time, he mortgaged his house to buy a microscope...
...John's is built in the old, enduring style of its medieval prototypes. Its walls and piers rose block by block of solid granite, whereas many Gothic-seeming churches built in recent years have only a veneer of stone on a steel skeleton. Only steel in St. John's is in the roof beams above the vault, where the Gothic churches had wooden beams. Another old-fashioned feature: it has been built, unit after unit, only when the money was on hand. "We don't owe a penny," said proud Bishop Manning last week...
Scrap-conscious OPM conservationists last week saved for defense the rusting skeleton of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") from a watery grave in Puget Sound. Scrap dealers had not been interested until OPM stirred them up. Now they figure they can salvage it at a. profit even under the $20-a-ton scrap ceiling. Result: addition of 3,500 tons to tne shrinking U.S. scrap-steel stockpile, enough to build 500 light tanks...
...seemed to steady somewhat. Captain L. E. H. Maund, C.B.E., a few senior officers and a picked skeleton crew stayed aboard. Two hours later the men on the destroyer cheered when they heard an order for all rescued members of the engine-room crew to return...
...lute (called al'ud in Arabic) originated in the Near East, where Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Greeks still play it. It was suggested to the legendary son of Methuselah by the sight of the skeleton leg of his own dead son, whose body he had suspended (it was the custom) from a tree. The lute's body represented the thighbone, its long neck, the leg bone; its bent head, the foot; its tuning pegs, the toes; its strings, the dried veins fluttering from the bones. The lute was the great instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance until...