Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bald, pious Charles Wayland Bryan, brother of the late great William Jennings Bryan, got his political start in 1915 as Mayor of flat, pious Lincoln, Neb. He went on to become Nebraska's three-time Governor and the Democratic Party's skull-capped candidate for Vice President in 1924. When his third term as Governor ended last January, Brother Bryan announced that he was retiring to tend his three farms. Last week, at 68, by polling more votes than any other candi date in a nonpartisan primary, he won a nomination for Mayor of Lincoln...
...Howard Newspapers) went with their governess to pick flowers at the Oahu Country Club outside Honolulu. Driving back, their native chauffeur leaned out to arrange the flowers, let the car plunge over a 25-foot embankment. Director Scripps and wife sped back by airplane, found Daughter Peggy with broken skull and ankles, Daughter Nackey with internal injuries, but the whole party out of danger...
...epileptic's skull is a firm barrier against studying his affliction. However, Drs. Hallowell Davis, 39, and Frederic Andrews Gibbs, 32, of Harvard have managed to detect intelligible electrical messages from the brains of epileptics through that barrier. Last week Drs. Davis & Gibbs went to Detroit to tell the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology how they received the epileptic messages and what they were...
Although the great hornless rhinoceros which paleontologists call Baluchitherium was undoubtedly the largest mammal that ever walked the Earth, not a trace of him was found until 1911. No complete skeleton of this 25,000,000-year-old monster exists anywhere, and the only skull, found in the Gobi by Dr. Walter Granger, is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dissatisfied with tentative representations of Baluchitherium as he looked in life, Dr. Granger decided that close study of the Museum's 200 miscellaneous bones would permit a more accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion...
...Chester Stock of Caltech, was a titanothere -a vegetarian mammal of 30,000,000 years ago, larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology. The beak was missing...