Word: boned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This society, under the direction of its secretary, Joseph B. Thoburn, exploring Big Mouth Cave, discovered a large number of bone tools and implements such as needles, awls, fishhooks, etc., as well as a number of articles made of stone. In some mounds excavated by the same party a number of pieces of pottery were found together with stone pipes, ear plugs that show evidence of having been covered with copper, and several copper ornaments. Is this not worthy of mention...
...letter then recounted how the patients of Herbert Barker, famed "bone setter," "suffered terrible agony under his treatment" until a practitioner, Dr. Axham, though realizing that he would incur the anger of the General Medical Council thought it his duty to offer his services as an anesthetist. . . . The Council found him guilty of 'infamous professional conduct' and deprived him of the right to practice medicine...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
...axiom "nothing known is worth knowing" paradoxically fits the present case. Dr. See has but admitted what the people of the time of Copernicus less statiscally expressed". Of course the fact that he has expressed it counts for something. In a nation whose state of civilization remains a bone of contention for all gnawing intellects, the existence of one man who can honestly say that he has spent a lifetime in study and glimpsed, even glimpsed Nothing, implies a certain criterion of progress...
...London the army of Wessex last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia...