Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What the inhabitants need most," he concluded, "is medical care. When we were there, one received a badly smashed head, and we had to sew it up without anesthesia. Fortunately, the skull healed before the loose bones were pushed into the brain. All their teeth are rotting, because they have no dental instruments. I am sending them some as soon as possible...
...results are tragical, as may be expected. But they are not altogether convincing, since it is less the stupidity of war than an all around desire for self-sacrifice which brings about the final catastrophe. The piece de resistance of the show is Eric Von Stroheim's Tentenie skull, which, as Germanophobes will notice to their regret, is not exploited for propaganda purposes. The prototype of the Prussian junker, Stroheim is badly miscast in the role of a Scrbian officer. As far as Dita Parlo, the blonde heroine of the picture, is concerned, there are grounds for assuming that...
...narrow city blocks, Harlem is a virtual pesthole. The t.b. mortality rate in Harlem is ten times higher than the rate in more prosperous sections of New York City. It is not uncommon for Harlem doctors to be stricken. Confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium at present is brilliant, contentious Skull Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, former surgical director of Harlem Hospital, considered by many the outstanding Negro physician...
...been said that the American stage is incapable of producing a good play about a contemporary dictatorship. Mr. Sherwood has done it; in achieving his success he has looked at tyranny from the north side of the Mannerheim Line, and to find its victims has trepanned the human skull and poked around in the gray matter inside...
...first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...