Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME has been giving "pop question games" . (i.e. questions & answers) over the radio since 1924. TIME has presented "skull tests" (i.e. questions & answers) to the Chambers of Commerce of leading U. S. cities...
King Eadgar and his thanes (so the play goes) have feasted until dawn in the smoky barn-hall at Winchester. The roast boar's head is hewn to skull and tusks. Mead has been spilled on the oak and the king's strong-thewed companions, none over 30, sprawl, snore or listen intently to the end of a long-drawn saga sung by Maccus, the harper. They thump the board with their cups at the finish. The ladies, gathered apart, lament the saga's true-loving hero...
...green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually it was a Japanese print of two birds perched on a human skull. The nearest "thought" sent in was one describing the mask and derby hat worn at one point by Dr. J. V. Woolley, "Honorary Research Officer." And one telepathist accurately described a cardboard box with a scarlet lid which, though not used in the experiment, was present in the prisoners' room...
...charge of assault and battery will be preferred against O. D. Ferguson '28, who was badly injured and who is still confined to the Stillman Infirmary, with a possible fractured skull. Ferguson was in the act of crossing to a restaurant from his room in the Yard when he was seized by police reinforcements from Central Square. In resisting the unexpected arrest, Ferguson injured Patrolmen Joseph O'Connor and James Prior. He was overpowered finally and clubbed unconscious. O'Connor was also taken to the hospital and is confined there with internal injuries. He was not using his stick...
Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...