Word: boned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over Woodrow Wilson's veracity (TIME, Jan. 27), the Senate's Munitions Investigation Committee last week resumed its functions on its last allowance of $7,369. Back in the witness chairs were J. P. Morgan & partners (TIME, Jan. 20). On the first day Washington's Senator Bone gravely asked Banker Morgan whether he thought the next war would destroy civilization...
...inner bars of the W go inward across the roof of the mouth until they meet at a point midway between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared...
...British soldiers steaming from the Far East to the Mediterranean mutinied and killed three British merchant seamen, according to Captain David Bone who filed at Gibraltar a terse account which shocked London. The soldiers were ordered brought to Southampton for trial...
...rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
...brain has been supposed, but never demonstrated conclusively until Edmund Jacobson of the University of Chicago thrice pushed a sharp wire into the brain of a normal man and found that an electrical current resulted every time the man closed his jaw. The experiment was possible because a bone tumor had necessitated removal of three square inches from the top of the man's skull. Dr. Jacobson's needle, therefore, perforated only scarred scalp to plunge one and a half inches into the living brain. Because this experiment harmed the man not at all, Dr. Jacobson hopes...