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Word: skulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...splotch of red-colored wreckage in the river a quarter-mile ahead near the Eskimo village of Walkpi. They landed, found a little group of natives huddled about a sleeping bag. On the ground, under the sleeping bag, lay the body of Will Rogers, his legs broken, his skull crushed. By his Ingersoll pocket watch, still ticking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Death in the Arctic | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...hall, bugged his eyes. Overnight the two upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Horrible! Vile! | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...that at my age I must continue to watch over Greek liberties!" shrilled 71-year-old M. Venizelos, his famed skull cap jerking back & forth on his bald head, to rest now on his neck, now on the bridge of his nose. "I had announced my retirement, but if the ex-King dares to return, I shall return to the political arena, resolved to save my country from the tyranny of a royalist dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Spitework | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

Amid the corrupt peasant-born super-bandits who ruled various parts of China as "war lords" ten years ago, Marshal Wu Pei-fu was the one old-fashioned Confucian scholar. A sad-eyed, firm-jawed little man with shaved skull and bedraggled mustache, Wu is supposed to be a descendant of one of Confucius' favorite pupils. At ten he could recite from the Chinese classics interminably and with feeling. His own poetry shows a gift for direct metaphor unusual in an Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Return of Wu? | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...Spilsbury arrived the usual London headlines suggested that not even this murder trail could be too cold for his keen, Sherlocking nose. Sniffed he: "I should say this man was killed about 1885 and was at that time about 55 years old. There are certain peculiar marks where the skull was indented by a blow which may prove significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime & Punishment | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

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