Word: slab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this marble there are hollows perhaps two inches deep...
They buried him near Canterbury in a stone chapel. And before his grave they put a little marble slab that men who past that way might worship on their knees. The stone chapel has sunk beneath the weight of ages, but out in a little field there is a grass grown marble slab with hollows where rain water lodges and where knees have been...
...Institute's diggers to uncover. From Solomon on man's course was rising faster. At his party last week Dr. Breasted read a communication from a man who was known by name to everybody-Xerxes. The Persian expedition had just cabled that it had discovered a marble slab on which Xerxes had written...
...Mirror obliged by printing large, close-up pictures of the muddy corpse as it lay on the beach. That put them one jump ahead of the Evening Graphic, but not for long. That afternoon the Graphic blossomed with a full front-page photograph of the corpse on a morgue slab, posed on its side by two obliging attendants to show the hands tied behind the back. Protested Cyrus H. K. Curtis' polite Evening Post: "Journalism, it seems to us, reaches...
...ancient slab of bone, shaped and curved like a cupped hand, gave Australian anatomists imaginative play last week. The bone was found recently near the Jervois Mountains in southern Australia. The bone is the top of a female's skull. The hind part of the relic indicates that, from the rear, she looked like an ape with head canted slightly forward. She had very powerful neck muscles. Her walk was slouchy, but nonetheless habitually upright. Thus her hands were free and more nimble than an ape's. She probably could braid twigs, early step in the art which...