Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pleistocene Minnehaha. Some 6,000 miles away, on a bleak, dry plain near Midland, Texas, the new-type scientific diggers got a full workout. Their problem was a broken-up skull, found 17 months ago by Keith Glasscock, an amateur archaeologist (TIME, July...
Geologist Lewis chiseled out some blocks of rock and headed back to his laboratory. In one of the chunks he found a paleontological El Dorado: the skull of a part-reptile, part-mammal tritylodontoid, a transitional creature that lived about 165 million years ago when mammals were just evolving from reptiles. Only a few small tritylodontoid fragments have been found in the old world; none at all had been found in the new world...
...drivers by finishing fourth in his first Indianapolis race, when he was 25. Besides his three Indianapolis firsts (1937, 1939, 1940), he also got three seconds, a fourth and a seventh in his 15 years of big-time racing. Legend had it that he was indestructible. He suffered a skull fracture, broken ribs and smashed vertebrae in a series of major crackups, once catapulted over an Indianapolis retaining wall (an accident which few survive), walked away to watch the race's finish...
This checked gruesomely with the autopsies performed on the bodies recovered from the sea. Most of them had skull fractures and external wounds. "Explosive decompression" (from pressurized to thin air) had burst all their lungs and hearts...
...Rights, chartered in August, claims a membership of 4,000. Said its state secretary, Ruth V. Armstrong: "I can't have my son or daughter dancing on a dance floor or swimming in a pool with somebody as black as the ace of spades and with a skull three inches thick...