Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Howell Howard, 39, Dayton Ohio paper manufacturer and five-goal poloist; of a fractured skull and lacerations of the brain, caused when his pony fell during a Meadow Brook Club match between the Foxhunters and Narragansett, for whom Poloist Howard played No. 2; at Mineola...
...that high-domed foreheads are a mark of superior intelligence, a mass of evidence has been assembled by scientists to show that, so far as living members of the species Homo sapiens are concerned, no connection can be traced between intellectual ability and the size or shape of the skull. Eskimos have bigger heads than civilized whites but no one argues that they are any smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale, and anthropologists are greatly interested in the normal range of variation in cranial...
...Smithsonian Institution's tireless Ales Hrdlicka recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under...
Finder was Judge William Johnson Graham of the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals, an experienced amateur archeologist who was probing the remains of the old Algonquin village of Patowoameke, from which the Potomac derives its name. When the skull fragments of the old Indian; perhaps a contemporary of John Smith and Pocahontas, were fitted together. Judge Graham gasped in astonishment: "Why, it's as big as a watermelon!" This was only mild hyperbole. The unknown Algonquin's cranial capacity was measured...
...British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...