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Word: skulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur noted a brawl along a highway near Washington, D. C. He leaped from his car, sprinted to the scene of action, separated three Negro caddies of the Congressional Club. But his arrival was too late to prevent the fracturing of one little Negro's skull by a bigger Negro with a stick. Secretary Wilbur rushed the injured lad to the Congressional Club for medical attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brawl | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass and broke her arm. At the post he struck his head. There was a concussion of the brain, fear of a fractured skull, and weeks of convalescence. When he became well he and Miss Douglass were married, and went to Europe for two years ($8,000 railroad damages paid expenses). Although he spends one to three months each year in the woods with his son, hunting and fishing and strolling, he has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler- ( Dodge) -Dillon | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...sleepless nights wondering whether her two children's lives are poisoned too. Her sister Albina Maggia Larice cannot walk at all. Her two children were born dead. Mrs. Edna Hussman hobbles about her household duties. Katherine Schaub developed pains in the skull. Her jaws crumbled; her features were curiously altered; then her mind sickened. For some time she was confined in a hospital for "nervous disorders." Her cousin Virginia Randolph is numbered among the first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Paintbrush | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Skull. For those who are in any degree sophisticates, this murder mystery, of which the scene is a "deserted" church overpopulated with skull-headed bats and international criminals, will seem hardly more terrifying than a picture of Daddy Browning saying "Boo!" to an African gander. Those who are more willing shock-absorbers will conceivably shiver at its second-hand devices and be ready to believe that the door-slammings and women-screechings were really all part of a plan for trapping a desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Florida Camps | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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