Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BULLY FOR THE BEAGLE'S ACHIEVEMENT AS u.s. NO. 1 DOG [TIME, FEB. 1]. AS OWNER AND BREEDER OF A.K.C. BEAGLE CHAMPION, MAY I SAY THAT NO "SLIGHTLY BOWLEGGED, APARTMENT-SIZE FOXHOUND" TRULY EXEMPLIFIES THE BREED. THE BEAGLE IS STRONG AND STRAIGHT OF BONE, FOR ALL HIS SMALL SIZE...
Christendom is sown with the bones of saints-chips and splinters, shins and fingers, skulls and full skeletons-encased in rich reliquaries and venerated by the faithful. The delicate question of authenticity often rests only on pious tradition; one bone looks much like another, and who can say for sure...
...warm the heart of the most demanding practicing anthropologist. One of the Museum's prize displays, for instance, is its room devoted entirely ot sequences of prehistoric artifacts--row on row of stone implements, demonstrating Stone Age man's first feeble attempts at tool-making. In the so-called "bone laboratory," some 15,000 human skeletal remains repose in carefully classified cases for the edification of the Univeristy's physical anthropologists. The physical anthropology section of the Museum has the distinction of possessing the largest collection of chimpanzee skulls on the North American continent--over 300 skulls, several years. Another...
...master gland that secretes many of the body's most important hormones, the pituitary is hidden in a pocket of bone beneath the brain and behind the eyes, as though nature had done her best to protect it from injury - or from the surgeon. Several ways of getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora...
...bits out of sheer boredom. "About Myself is a nightmare comedy of numbers set in an Orwellian bureaucracy. ("My left front tire is Number 48KE8846, my right front tire is Number 63T6895".) But if Humorist White jangles the nerves with predictable frequency, he remembers how to jiggle the funny bone too. His four-page "Across the Street and into the Grill," a parody of Hemingway, is a minor triumph of satirical humor...