Word: bone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died, his own abilities ebbed. He set a bone awkwardly; his practice limped thereafter. Moving to the seashore, he tried again, became hopelessly deranged, attempted to burn his home. His wife worked as a postmistress, retrieved him from an asylum. Paralysis crept through his legs. But his clouded mind cleared for the final instant before death. "Dear wife...
...eigners," completely forgot the distinguished presence of Statesman Hughes. Suddenly they remembered with a gasp. Directly in front of the onetime Prime Minister's seat grappling Nebraska got an annihilating hold, tautened mighty muscles and hurled ponderous Poland bodily through the ropes-218 pounds of beef and bone straight at the lap of little Billy Hughes...
Meat Diet. Arctic Explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson lived in the U. S. eating for a whole year nothing but beef muscle, tongue, liver, kidney, brain, fat, bone marrow, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, meat broths, black tea, water. They lived as ordinary city dwellers, except that they carefully walked an hour or so each day and occasionally ran about two and one-half miles. Their health remained excellent in all ways, leading New York's Eugene Floyd Du Bois, W. S. McClellan, H. J. Spencer and E. A. Falk, who studied them, to conclude that "in general white...
Waiting for them at the gate was Prince Ernst Rüiger von Starhemberg, a Gemsbart (beard of a chamois) jutting proudly from the back of his green felt hat, his grey and green hunter's coat tightly bone-buttoned...
Humble, hard-toiling, peasant-bred Lancashire has stood for other wage cuts, but this was to the bone. With quiet, orderly determination?with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark...