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Word: skulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secured a skull from the hospital, got some wrecked portions of automobiles and filled the window with pictures of wrecked vehicles in this vicinity. Note the dummy in the wreck. Mercurochrome spread over the clothes and floor gave it a ghastly bloody appearance. Above the shrouded skull was the caption "Too Late To Enroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

From Burma the expedition will travel by airplane to Singapore and Bandeong Java. There, joining forces with Dr. Halph von Koenigswald, they will explore new sites along the Solo River, where last year von Koenigswald discovered the skull of what is probably the oldest human in the world, a baby of 700,000 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Helps Send Force "On Road To Mandalay" In Ancient Man Hunt | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

...mobiles" of U. S. Artist Alexander Calder. Two duelists on skates approach each other with impedimenta as weird as the White Knight's. One of them grins from within a birdcage-topped barrel, while the other, armed with poker & tongs, crouches under the carapace of a sheep-skull. A bored hermit reclining in the background is ostentatiously not interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Galleries | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Inside the black shroud was Clerk Cloe Mitchell. From a Rogers doctor he had borrowed skull and arm bones and at least for a time after passing Spectre Mitchell, motorists, particularly colored ones, slowed down. Declared State Police Superintendent Albright: "Statues of the Grim Reaper on highways would cause motorists to drive with caution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rogers' Reaper | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Leftists, declared the prelates, showed little consideration for the Church: "Tombs and churchyards have been profaned. . . . The people have played football with the skull of the great Bishop Torras y Bages. . . . We calculate that about 20,000 churches and chapels have been destroyed or totally plundered. . . . [Priests] were hunted with dogs; were pursued across the mountains. . . . They were killed without trial most times. . . . The honor of women has not been respected, not even of those consecrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 10,000 Rightist Words | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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