Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Joe" About to depart for a vacation at Palm Beach, Hamlet Smith took a brief curtain to reply to Senator Robinson. As if weeping over the skull of a departed Yorick, he lamented: "Poor Joe -I'm sorry for him; they put him on a tough spot. He did the best he knew how, but it was no answer. As I said in my speech . . . there is only one man who should try to answer me. . . .* I was an 'Unhappy Warrior' to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt...
...thrice pushed a sharp wire into the brain of a normal man and found that an electrical current resulted every time the man closed his jaw. The experiment was possible because a bone tumor had necessitated removal of three square inches from the top of the man's skull. Dr. Jacobson's needle, therefore, perforated only scarred scalp to plunge one and a half inches into the living brain. Because this experiment harmed the man not at all, Dr. Jacobson hopes to perform "further experimentae cruciae" to learn precisely what happens in the brain when a person makes...
...Geographical Institute's aerial photography group was the mapping of the Newburyport, Mass. area for the peabody Museum's survey of the inhabitants of that region. An army of workers was employed to interiew each Newburyport resident, noting his personal history and gathering anthropological data on his skull's dimensions...
...They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving. Mr. Leen lay at the side of the road with a fractured skull. Senator Schall lay unconscious in the centre of the highway with a shattered leg, a battered head, internal injuries. Three days later in Washington's Casualty Hospital, he died without ever having regained consciousness...
...Willys, an ex-convict's wife, proceeded to smear make-up over her fat face, show photographers how she had swung a hammer found buried that day in the skull of her 62-year-old dentist lover, Dr. William F. Hammond...