Word: bone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is an outside chance for the Republicans to drive home the Methodist-Baptist bone-dry wedge and split off a piece or two of the Solid South, the man to swing the sledge is saturnine Campbell Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge's onetime (1923-25) secretary, the Republican National Committeeman from Virginia. He it is who knows the ways, light and dark, of Southern Republicans. He it was who, last week, immediately after the Anti-Smith Democrats had said their say for Hoover at Asheville, N. C. (see p. 9), was appointed a "special assistant" by National Republican Chairman...
...without a miss the fretting fists of William Ogden Heath, 27, of Garden City, L. I., struck the punching bag over his head. He was flat on his back, but not for virtuosity in bag punching. His hips and knees were stiff and painful from arthritis. Abnormal deposits of bone made them practically immovable. Drugs, vaccines, sun baths, oven bakings, changes of climate had done him no good. The disease had grown worse, and this backside bag hitting was an intelligent young man's desperate effort to prevent his arm joints becoming swollen with the disease...
Just as the War began Dr. Albee was demonstrating original methods of bone grafting in Germany, England and France. He kept on in the French military hospitals, and later in those of the A. E. F. His invention of replacing, by bone grafts, parts of the spine diseased by tuberculosis goes by his name...
...Albee believed he could ameliorate if not cure the Heath case of arthritis. Plan: To open up the knee and hip joints and scrape away the freak bone formation; to line the knee joints to prevent fraction with fat and connective tissue from the thighs; to replace the excised, but normal, bones and skin. That is what...
...radium company seven years ago; still runs her department although her left elbow cannot move and she wears a brace from neck to hips. Twenty operations have been performed on her jaw. The Treatment. None. There is no way known to medical science of removing the radium from the bones of these doomed young women. Said Dr. Martland: "The deposits can be removed only by cremating the bone and then boiling the ash in hydrochloric acid." Keen observers suggested that the bodies of all the unconscious martyrs be exhumed, given to hospitals and laboratories for study, that this great tragedy...