Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brain Squeeze. When they suddenly sit up, stand up, drop into a chair, fall into bed or tumble, some people get dizzy, may even develop headaches. Immediate cause: sudden shifting of blood and other fluids within the brain, skull and spinal column. These squeeze the brain unduly. Usual underlying cause: hardening of the arteries and failure of the subtle body mechanism which should instantaneously regulate blood pressure and circulation...
...Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
From a bootblack chair at Chicago's University Club, Vice President Frederick Lee McNally of Rand, McNally & Co. (books, atlases) toppled, cracked his skull. While his wife was visiting him in a hospital, burglars stripped their apartment of jewelry, cash and clothing worth...
...Cleveland, when his five-year-old son butted into a quarrel between drunken Sam Lovelace and his wife, Father Lovelace threw a hatchet at the child. Baby Lovelace picked it up, returned the throw ten feet, fracturing his father's skull...
Main reliance of the Davis-Gibbs work is the recently recognized fact that the brain pulsates. When it does so it produces a faint electric current which can be detected and registered on a chart by means of electrodes applied to ear and skull...