Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative maces that look like clubs. Almost none were ever weapons. But last week the Legislative Council of the Fiji Islands got a true weapon-mace. In future no Fiji Councillor may introduce a bill or make a speech or have his vote counted unless the venerable skull-cracker of King Cakobau, last native ruler of Fiji, lies upon the table...
Died. Donald van Rensselaer Freeman, 29, managing editor of Vanity Fair since 1926; of a fractured skull received when his roadster hit a traffic stanchion; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. He was responsible for the presence in the U. S. of the great German film Maedchen in Uniform (TIME, Oct. 3) for which he wrote the U. S. subtitles...
Major General John Archer Lejeune, U. S. M. C. retired, 65, superintendent of Virginia Military Institute, walked down an embankment on the institution's campus, suddenly found himself running, leaped a retaining wall, fell, broke his arm and fractured his skull...
...scrap. Railroads, buildings, old automobiles supply immense quantities. Old rails, cars, locomotives, machinery, pipes, automobiles pour into the big scrap yards to be cut or broken up, carefully sorted. Giant shears leisurely chomp a steel freight car into bits. Oxyacetylene torches slice up rail's, girders, beams. "Skull-crackers" shatter cumbersome castings. Twisted sheets and waste are bundled by hydraulic presses. Great electric magnets on overhead cranes pile the fragments into heaps or load them in gondola cars for the blast furnaces...
...Gate Ferries Co. and Spring Valley Land Co. At Stanford, where his brother Samuel Palmer Eastman Jr. is also on the track team, Ben Eastman majors in economics, plans to go to Stanford's graduate school of business. He belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, an organization called Skull & Snakes, and the Board of Athletic Control. In May he was elected Captain of the track team. He has no special training methods. He eats what he likes until three hours before a meet when he gobbles steak, tea, custard. Calm, almost lethargic, Eastman's style of running...