Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before European ships joined the two primitive races. Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets, gourds for whistles. Other similar customs include drinking from a human skull (the Vikings did likewise), spreading the ear lobe, killing the wife or husband upon the spouse's death, using feathers for money, deforming skulls, shaving heads in ridges, burying a live human being under a house's foundation...
...crisis of exhaustion in which serious wrestling matches almost always end. Shikat seized Lewis by his fat middle, tried to whirl him over his head in an airplane spin. This was what Lewis had been arduously waiting for. He had just enough strength left to seize Shikat's skull in his headlock, throw him down backward three times, fall on him the fourth time to win the match...
...which I was sitting when engaged in thought." Jeremy Bentham's bones were dressed up in his own garments, topped off with a wax effigy of his head. As guarded now in an old box in the Anatomical Museum of University College, London, Jeremy Bentham sits with his skull at his feet, his favorite stick, "Dapple," on his knee. Last week, at the dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary of his death, he was trotted out on show, for his will stipulated that at any commemorative gathering he should be "stationed in such a part of the room...
...rounding the eyeballs remain swollen to from three to eight times their normal size Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of San Francisco relieved the pressure by enlargement of the passages through which the optic nerves and the arteries of the eyes reach the eyesocket from the interior of the skull. The popping eyes then reset themselves...
Professionally he is rated a speedy, crackerjack general surgeon operating on "anything below the throat." The cliche is misleading. He has done notable re search on the pituitary gland (in the skull) as well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...