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Word: skulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State College, Pa., green skull caps bobbed hither and thither through the streets. Pennsylvania State University had opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Collegiate | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...quality who lives on a great and isolated plantation in South Carolina. The people who serve her, the people who are her neighbors, the people she watches over, are black. In this book she writes about them. No wild crapshooters are they, no barrelhouse kings, cakewalk princes, or skull-faced witch-men. They are Negroes who pick cotton, plough fields, raise pickaninnies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...those present were joining in commemorated the death, one day before, of his owner and 'driver, Edward F. ("Pop") Geers, most no table of all reinsmen. Rounding a turn behind his mare Miladi Guy, Geers had been catapulted from his seat when the mare fell, had fractured his skull, died unconscious. He was to have driven Peter Manning one last race, to try and beat the mile record again before retiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dead | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...intense heat made the atmosphere tremulous and wavy. At the end of three hours the heart, which was unusually big remained unconsumed. The frontal bone of the skull . . . fell off, and the brains literally seethed, bubbled and boiled. . . . Byron could not face the scene. . . . The village children . . . told each other that from these bones, once they had reached England, the dead man would come to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Books: Chained Rebellion | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...silent brethren of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane celebrated their 75th year of existence at Gethsemane, Ky., by a gorgeous procession to Pontifical Mass. Their Abbot, Edmond Marie Obrecht, already mitred and having the rank of Bishop in his territory, was given the purple zucchetto, a skull cap which ranks him as Bishop where-ever he goes. The zucchetto was conferred in person by Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who said: "Had it been a red zucchetto it would not have been too much." The monks celebrated by giving a feast to all their guests, although they themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mitred Abbot | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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