Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much publicized and gushed-over, by sob sisters, Peggy Ann Landon, in a Cleveland restaurant famed for its good, high-powered beer. Wonder what bone-dry Kansans think of this...
...Atlanta, Jack Bone, aged 17 months, came upon an eight-inch snake in his back yard, bit it, killed it. Bundled off to a hospital, Jack Bone was pronounced unharmed...
...seemed the fight was winning and that the plane might be landed, you came back and warned your passengers that the landing would be rough. You unlocked the door so that all could escape from the burning plane. . . . You did this when your hands were burned to the bone. You could hardly hold the key. I pray God for the knowledge to understand for what purpose He saved my life by sacrificing yours...
Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...
Said Seattle's Anesthetist Louis Herbert Maxson last week upon having a piece of dead bone removed from his foot without the use of anesthetic: "I'll be a fine guinea pig." Dr. Maxson had just discovered that he suffered from syringomyelia, incurable spinal abscess which renders limbs insensate and may require continuous amputations. Bleakly continued Dr. Maxson: "Well, it's a slow disease. It may take 10, 20, 40 years to kill me. And I'm 52. So I'm not bothering my head about it much. Anesthetists work sitting down...