Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernard Spilsbury, Home Office pathologist, was called upon to reconstruct the body. He spent a full day collecting the pieces, and worked all night making a rough assembly. Then he did a routine day's work, after which he spent a second night finishing the reconstruction of Emily Kaye. The resulting "masterpiece" helped to send her murderer to the gallows-where Sir Bernard, quiet and efficient as ever, was on hand to perform the official post-mortem and confirm that death had resulted from dislocation of the murderer's spine "between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae...
...with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy Box Murder Case.-The police began to consult him so often in baffling mysteries that his name became a regular...
When this was discovered, five years later, the Army asked Van Vliet to reconstruct his report from memory. His conclusions: "I believe the Russians did it. I hated the Germans, I didn't want to believe them. I realized the Germans would do their best to convince me that Russia was guilty ... It was only with great reluctance that I decided finally that it must be true...
...article which purported to "reconstruct" the recent shakeup in the Athletic Association, the Bulletin stated: "... while Mr. Bingham inclined to the view that he should cut all ties with the University, the President (Conant) was able to persuade him to stay on and lend valuable advice and help to the man who took over in his stead...
...Metropolitan District Commission announced yesterday that it plans to spend over $1,000,000 this year to extend Memorial Drive along the westerly side of the Charles River past the new Eliot Bridge to Watertown as well as reconstruct other portions of the local parkway...