Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadiens get their punch from the "punch line" composed of Maurice Richard (TIME, Mar. 3), Toe Blake and Elmer Lach (out for the rest of this season with a fractured skull). Ten years ago Blake was a leading tenant of what Montrealers call le pénitencier (penalty box). But last year, a reformed character, he won the Lady Byng Clean Play Trophy...
...could the brain, protected by the skull, have got such a beating? The investigators, Dr. Harold R. Pratt-Thomas and Dr. Knute E. Berger, admitted that they were baffled, but they strongly suspected that violent stretching and bending of the head might account for it. Said they: "[The blood vessels] could have been damaged by manipulations that forcibly brought them into contact with the cranial case...
Unlike outdoorish Winslow Homer (see above), Rouault has always looked inward, to paint the medieval hells and heavens exploding within the high dome of his skull. Rouault was born in violence when a shell blasted his mother out of bed during the bombardment of Paris in 1871. At 14 he went to work in a stained-glass factory, where he earned a dollar a week and developed his unique inner climate-as sharp and glowing, to judge by his art, as glass...
...spite of these non-human characteristics, tarsiers are genuine primates. They can stand upright, like a man; their spinal columns, like man's, hang from the base of the skull. Instead of claws, they have long, spatulate fingers and tiny fingernails...
...outside, trying to get in. On the floor below, Senators began to arrive, pumping each other's hands, looking for their desks and seats for their friends. At 18 minutes to noon, Bilbo stumped in-reddish brown suit, sagging paunch, sunken cheeks, hair slicked down on his round skull...