Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago he decided to experiment on stubborn cases of osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis is an infectious inflammation of the bone marrow or of the marrow and the bone. The bone rots, and then adjacent flesh. It is more common in children than in adults. It is difficult to cure. If unrestrained it may kill quickly or may last for years. The usual treatment is to cut out the decayed bone and flesh, often repeatedly...
Perhaps the most important piece archaeologically is the bone figure of a god (loaned by the Iraq Museum), tiny in size but executed with great delicacy and feeling. Aside from its purely aesthetic appeal, its similarity to works of the Hittite country makes it very significant...
...Frederic (Irene Castle) McLaughlin, onetime dancer, animal lover,*was thrown, suffered a broken collar bone when her hunter stumbled into a hole as he approached a jump west of Lake Forest...
...blunder when you list Senator Gore as a Wet (TIME, Aug. 25). Senator Gore was nominated in the same election in which the very Dry Oklahoma Constitution was adopted and was twice re-elected as a bone Dry. . . . The Wet wing of the Democratic party of Oklahoma was squelched in the campaign...
...flayed the 18th Amendment and the Anti-Saloon League ("It is no more needed today than an anti-slavery society") and expressed surprising satisfaction with a platform that weasled on Prohibition as obviously as did the Republicans. His Wet candidacy was endorsed "without a reservation" by the party's bone-Dry gubernatorial nominee, George White...