Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doughty diplomat staggered across the street to Achilles Orphanos' delicatessen store where the alarm was sounded. An ambulance carried the chief representative in the U. S. of the Government of Salvador to the Emergency Hospital where 27 stitches were taken in his head. X-rays showed a fractured skull...
Next year Austria plans to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Haydn's birth but over his skull & bones a dispute has arisen. All Haydn's bones up to his head are in Eisenstadt where for years Haydn lived and worked. Eisenstadt wants to stage the major celebration but she wants also the skull, possessed now by the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Vienna Friends, loth to lend it, received it from the heirs of the morbid jailer. When the authorities discovered and traced the theft ten years after it was made, the culprits procured...
...third Thursday in every May is always fully reported in metropolitan newspapers, any outsiders are well aware of the tense excitement, the sense of a noble and picturesque tradition that comes to Yale on Tap Day. But there was once a time when Yale's four Senior Societies- Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club-were taken more seriously than now. In that day Yale would have shuddered if its dean had said, as Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell said three years ago: "[The Senior Societies] must face the charge that the Senior Society...
...gnats, make gnomes of these mountain peoples. The worms are a species of Filariae, called Onchocerca caecutiens, about one and one-quarter inches long, slimmer than a hair and white. When they get into the skin and breed, they soon form a network of colonies on the skull, resembling sodden felt and causing cranial protuberances. Wandering worms and their excrement give rise to the other gnomelike appearances...
...Museum (he is part Seneca Indian) was invited last week to solve what promised to be an interesting problem. At Auriesville, N. Y., site of the shrine to North America's eight Roman Catholic saints (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), excavators had discovered two complete skeletons and the skull of a third. Archeologist Parker was asked to determine their identity. They might be the remains of three of the eight saints?Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, Jesuit missionaries?who were slain near Auriesville by Iroquois Indians in the middle of the 17th Century...