Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Head Coach Mal Stevens called off the practice scheduled for today because of the heavy rain, which poured a good part of the afternoon and instead he ordered the blue squad to report to the Y Club for a skull practice, which lasted about two hours. The formations and plays used by Harvard this season were explained to the wearers of the Blue. Coach Adam Walsh, who scouted the Harvard-Michigan game at Ann Arbor, Michigan, explained in detail the strong and weak points of the Crimson line and also discussed the Harvard backs...
Nicholas Horthy, son of Hungary's Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, was thrown from his pony, dragged along the field while playing in a Budapest polo game. His mother and father were looking on. He was taken from the field unconscious, his skull fractured, ribs broken...
...other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees. Hans Nagel, keeper of the Houston Zoo, was elected executioner. He approached to close range, raised a big-game rifle, fired. Black Diamond howled, tried to jerk away. Nagel fired again, could not penetrate the elephant's skull.* While the monster wildly trumpeted and twisted, Nagel kept on firing, exhausted all his ammunition. He asked for more but it was not until 60 shots had crashed into Black Diamond that he sagged and toppled. Circus performers at the execution wept as Black Diamond fell. Afterward, Executioner Nagel...
West Point, N. Y., October 14--Coach "Biff" Jones diagnosis of the mistakes made in the Davidson game constituted the main part of today's workout for the Army team. He held a long skull session, pointing out the errors that his aides had noted, in an effort to perfect a smooth running machine...
...France. Immediately the "Glozel Finds" attracted world wide attention. French archeologists announced that they were important relics of the Stone Age, wrote monographs. British and French illustrated weeklies printed elaborate facsimiles of the Glozel tablets, compared them in importance to Egypt's Rosetta Stone, Britain's Piltdown skull. Gaston Bayle was not impressed. With his test tubes, his X-rays, his spectroscopes, he proved that the Glozel finds were not more than 15 years old, and clumsy forgeries at that...