Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the British Museum to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has come the fifteen-foot skeleton of a False Killer whale, a species known to science until fifteen years ago only by its fossilized skull...
During javelin practice at Bowdoin College in the spring of 1932, Freshman Tapping Selah Reeve had the back of his head pierced by a javelin. He pulled the spiked rod from his skull, ran a quarter mile to the college infirmary. Last week Tapping Reeve, 23, was a Bowdoin junior with senior standing, president of Chi Psi fraternity, manager of the junior varsity football team...
...David A. Lamson, sitting in his death cell at San Quentin Prison. Last year a San Jose jury had found the young Stanford University Press salesmanager guilty of murder after it refused to believe his story that his wife Allene had slipped in the bathtub and fatally fractured her skull (TIME, Sept. 11, 1933). Judge Waste and his associates on the Supreme bench last week declared the Lamson new-trial story untrue, cited the Chronicle, Editor Chester Rowell and Managing Editor William D. Chandler for contempt of court. Crowds that flocked to the hearing to see Republican Pundit Rowell squirm...
...promise not to impeach him (TIME, June 22, 1931). His prime enemy was a roly-poly politician from Seminary named Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner. On the walls of the Governor's office hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton, with MIKE CONNER written on its skull. In 1932 "Sure Mike" Conner took the picture down when he moved in as Governor...
...annoyed with Sister Therese, runs away, makes good her escape by sending dour old Ferryman Lardi, asleep on his raft, to death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin of the medicine man. At Madame Boul-boul's tavern, "Admiral" Delabouche and his crony play dominoes. Flore arrives and the town takes pride in its first courtesan who becomes the Administrator's mistress. The fragments...