Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepted world record of Swedish E. H. Lundquist. Then, wearied, he walked across the athletic field. A javelin returned through the air struck him in the back of the head. It stuck there, quivering with the force of flight. The boy reached back and plucked the weapon from his skull, ran a quarter-mile to the college infirmary. From there he was transported to Portland. It seemed he would live...
Often surprising are the brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25, lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The Museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...head was swathed in bandages. He had undergone two successive operations in which his whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth, and most of his lower jaw had been removed. All the remaining bone tissue of his body was slowly disintegrating, and holes were actually forming in his skull...
...leaped out, knocked him down, kicked him about the sidewalk, shot him in the hand. An hour later, Samuel Saulkind, waiting for a street car, was asked, "Have you got a match?" "No," he said. Whereat the trio fell upon Samuel Saulkind, kicked him about the sidewalk, fractured his skull. Approaching Frank Thornton on his way home, the three autoists queried, "Have you got a match?" When he replied "No," they belabored him grievously, left him with a fractured skull, both legs broken, dying. Myer Goldberg was similarly questioned. Him the three men jumped, thumped, thwacked and kicked, left with...
There is nothing very bad in finding that Lowell wears well, nor is there anything particularly starting in the discovery. When gamins form a club in the old house at the corner they borrow a sheet from the family linen closet and paint an ominous skull and cross bones on it, or they select a secret pass word, or they conceive a now hand shake. It is all such jolly fun and so confusing to the other club round the corner. At times organizations are even formed for the sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty...