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Word: boned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, if you had told about Halvor H. Skavlem, a 78-year-old Wisconsinian who has devoted many years of his life to studying Indian relics and is the only white man who has ever discovered and imitated the lost Indian method of chipping flint arrowheads with bits of bone and a crude hammer! Recently he gave an exhibition here, chipping out perfect heads in 15 minutes each, with motions that looked so simple until one tried them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Calcium. Dr. Weston A. Price of Cleveland reported data furthering scientific knowledge of the effect of the ultraviolet ray in aiding calcium assimilation (bone growth). This knowledge, already applied to the treatment of rickets, definitely relates influenza epidemics with city smoke-palls; definitely benefits gravid women, who, according to the old rule, sacrificed "a tooth for every child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Academy | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Senator McKinley's "bone dry" harangues, had not availed against Colonel Smith's impassioned anti-World Court tirades. The question of whether Smith can win out over George ("Wetter-Than-Niagara") Brennan, who secured the Democratic nomination, promptly came to the fore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Illinois Primary | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...human arm bone, embedded in caked mud and surrounded by a long string of bracelets, is the most striking feature of the collection of Indian relics which Mr. C. B. Cosgrove has brought back with him from New Mexico. Mr. Cosgrove, who has just returned to Cambridge, has spent the last two years in charge of the Peabody Museum expedition in the Mimbres Valley in south-western New Mexico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bracelet Bedecked Arm Is Among Relics of New Mexico Aborigines Unearthed by Head of Peabody Museum Expedition | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...bracelets we found, which in some instances have become cemented on the arm bone, are of Pacific clam shell, and were evidently traded in to the interior by coast tribes. Almost all of the jewelry, including several turquoise necklaces was found as part of burial trappings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bracelet Bedecked Arm Is Among Relics of New Mexico Aborigines Unearthed by Head of Peabody Museum Expedition | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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