Word: skulled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great English philosopher-economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
...last week's breakfast "Dr." Smith, a slick-scalped man who wears gold-rimmed glasses and winged collars, caressed the skull of his deceased patient, placed a cigaret between its spring-hung jaws, clacked its bare hands upon the table. In final flourish the nine naprapaths signed a scroll listing themselves as members of a Post-Mortem Club and willing their bones thereto. A notary public authenticated the- document for what it was worth...
Manitoba. First discovery of a mosasaur skull was made in 1780 by quarrymen near Maestrict, Holland. The fossil started a lawsuit, attained such fame that a French general attacking Maestrict ordered his gunners not to molest the house containing it. Cruising the shallow seas of the Chalk Age (60-100 million years ago), the mosasaurs, though true reptiles, were completely aquatic. Their legs had become flippers. They had formidably toothed mouths which a specially jointed lower jaw enabled them to open very wide. The smallest species was eight feet long, the largest more than 40. The big ones could swallow...
...ripping out his fingernails, chopping off his thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after 14 months he went back to the scene of his captivity three years later to establish a mission. As he entered a cabin an Iroquois tomahawk cleaved his skull, starting him on the road to sainthood...
...business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than of strength. Neither Dempsey nor Corbett could match the practiced steer-knocker's formula of one knock per steer...