Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon of October 31 the powerful Princeton football team came into the Stadium. In its backfield was an all-American running back. He was flanked by other stars, and in front of them loomed a bone-crushing line. And that afternoon Harvard football fortunes turned. The final score was 14-14, but to the delirious Harvard stands, starving for a winning football team, the score...
...cropped up called the converter-an individual or company, often with one dingy office and no plant, who contracts for raw goods and farms out throwing & weaving to the lowest bidder in cutthroat competition. Nobody has been happy. While owners have found themselves in or near bankruptcy because of bone-slashed prices, millhands have been faced with wages, hours and working conditions as varied & uncertain as the silk in women's hosiery...
Author Scott explains that he wrote Algebra for Parents because "ordinary school books are written to be used under a teacher. If a parent is moved to bone up on the subject, he is repelled by the usual textbook . . . seldom more than a skeleton of instruction and a mass of exercises." Although professional textbook writers may accuse Author Scott of oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession...
...Senate a few weeks ago Homer Truett Bone, small desiccated senior Senator from Washington, buttonholed his colleagues, one by one, with a grim persistence. He did not have to tell them that his and their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill...
...time Senator Bone's bill and companion bills sponsored by Representatives Bulwinkle of North Carolina and Maverick of Texas came up for public hearings. Half the cancer specialists of the country, persuaded by Dr. Lewis Ryers Thompson, assistant surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, appeared to testify. Franklin Roosevelt, sitting in his office, last week squiggled his signature and the Bone-Bulwinkle Bill became...