Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting for some industrial physicist to build a tiny radio tube which will emit a wave eight-tenths of a meter (31.2 in.) long at a frequency of 320 million cycles per second. Such radiation would heat only the patient's blood and not affect flesh or bone...
...best, least fatiguing posture and movement those unit masses of flesh and bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...
...plausible analysis of the U. S. Road to War in 1914-17 (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.), able Writer Walter Millis two years ago pointed out what looked to four U. S. Senators-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone-and to many a plain citizen, like a plain road to peace. If it were true that the U. S. had fought in the World War not to make the world safe for democracy but to save the frog-skins of its merchants and moneylenders, then the gloriously sure and simple way for it to stay out of the next...
...unique significance in the field of English letters there can be no doubt. Its phraseology has become part and parcel of our common tongue--bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. Its rhythms and cadences, its turns of speech, its familiar imagery, its very words, are woven into the texture of our literature, prose and poetry alike. Yet it is of the Orient, we of the West; it is a translation, not an original; and it has reached us by way, not of one language only, but of three. What is it, then, in this translation, which...
...Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...