Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...
...Undergraduate Council calls to the notice of the Freshman Class the following important and traditional customs: 1. Only black ties may be worn by Freshmen. This restriction applies only until Washington's birthday. 2. The regulation head-dress for Freshmen is a black skull cap. 3. Freshmen may not walk on the grass. 4. Freshmen may not smoke on the street or on the Campus. 5. Freshmen may not enter Renwick's. 6. Freshmen may not use the walk in front of Nassau Hall or McCosh Walk. 7. Freshmen are not allowed on Prospect Street at any time. 8. Freshmen...
...Palaeopitus, the student governing body at Dartmouth, has relegated all Freshmen restrictions to the limbo of the graduates' memory, where, no doubt, it will flourish for many years to come. Only one relic of school days remains for the first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into bed of an evening fearing...
...polar bears, shot five while they collected from the camp a sledge, oars, snowshoes, remnants of the balloon basket, boats, unopened food tins, ammunition, sleeping bag, instruments, clothing, a roll of exposed photograph film, a gold fruit knife, medicines, a white dress-cravat, etc. etc. Then they found a skull, probably that of Andrée.* But best of all they found Strindberg's diary...
...wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George E. Billingshurst) three fingers of his left hand were shot away. In 1921 in an unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received 14 more bullet wounds. Exiled in 1922, he filled in his spare time by serving in the Spanish Army in Morocco against the Riff. Last week he flew from Arequipa to Lima to take charge of the government...