Word: embeddedness
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His Majesty George V, by the Grace of God King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, had donned the uniform of a colonel-in-chief of the Royal Horse Guards. Her Majesty...
A human arm bone, embedded in caked mud and surrounded by a long string of bracelets, is the most striking feature of the collection of Indian relics which Mr. C. B. Cosgrove has brought back with him from New Mexico. Mr. Cosgrove, who has just returned to Cambridge, has spent...
The doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's...
At Walkerton, Ind., a farmer opened a mound, disclosed eight skeletons, one of them clad in copper armor, lying feet together like spokes in a wheel. A giant for stature had a flint arrow head embedded in his skull. The bones appeared to be of Mound Builders.
* An expanse of ocean bounded roughly by 25° and 30° N. and 38° and 60° W., which currents make a back-water accumulating flotsam. The masses and banks of sargassum weed impeded Columbus for a fortnight on his first voyage to the New World (September, 1492...