Word: skeletons
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...beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
Scattered in heaps within the skeleton's ribs, arranged in lines beneath the thorax and shoulders as though dropped from decayed strings, lay quarts and quarts of finest pierced pearls, from pinhead size to hickory-nut. There were necklaces of grizzly bears' teeth, the largest ever found, strung with buttons of copper and silver. There were tortoise shell fragments and a swan cut in tortoise shell and effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly...
...order to carry out this plan, however, much "flesh" would have to be put on the skeleton organization that now exists. The regular Army would have to be quadrupled in size; the National Guard would have to be tripled. The reserves at present consist only of reserve officers and a few non-commissioned officers-the ranks would have to be completely recruited...
...system plans to have a skeleton organization in each community so that, in case of emergency, men can be raised and trained there, instead of being carried far and expensively to great military cantonments. The object of Defense Day is to familiarize civilians with the skeleton defense organization so that, in time of need, they can cooperate with...
...associated with the skeleton of a Cro-Magnon, near Menton, were the skeletons of a woman and child, negroid-perhaps invaders from Northern Africa. Evolution and Religion. If one accepts evolution as a fact (not a theory) -and Prof. Lull insists that all informed scientists do-what is the religious consequence? It means rejection of the doctrine of the Ark, of a literal seven days of creation, of a direct creation of man and the higher animals. It leaves fully open the possibility of believing in potential creation, of a Creator having ordered things so that this evolution would come...