Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acta, in its last number, had lots of fun with "Skull" and "Dorrs" of the Yale football team...
...wonderful enchantment possessed me. I looked at the clock: the hands were moving irregularly backward and forward, though it had stopped ticking. There was an escritoire in one corner of the room, and the cover of this fell down with a loud bang. Inside was a man's skull. The pictures seemed to move in their frames. I could see the figure of a dog run madly back and forth; the horses in "Aurora" were galloping furiously. With fearful effort I rose to my feet and tried to escape from the room, but an invisible bar held me back...
...grinning skull of a yellow Mongol...
FAUST, alone in his study; books are strewn about the room; chemical retorts and burettes lie on the table; FAUST holds a skull in his hand...
...next subject was a Senior who had been clubbed to death, while peaceably returning from a literary dinner, by a policeman. The surgeons at once began to examine his brain. After sawing into the skull for more than half an hour, they were unable to reach the cerebrum. So thick was the cranium that the operators began to despair of finding any brain at all, and were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small...