Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doors of the President's office to let in the biggest jam that had attended any Roosevelt press conference. Some of the last men in had to be pushed forward by guards. The President leaned back in his desk chair, puffing at a cigaret in a yellow bone holder. "All in?" he cheerfully inquired. "Then shut the doors, and nobody leaves until the conference is over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to those close to the desk...
...knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera so truly that they become watertight. He mends the splintered bone and repairs the lacerated flesh while holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit, lest it should flee in flight. "When a surgical operation is described as beautiful, it seems incongruous and uncanny to the layman. To one who can appreciate its beauties it is really the acme of artistic...
...more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following account is only the first page of ten, is studded with references to 38 bone fide cases in massive Langdell tomes...
...remember distinctly a certain day last year when I was at prep. school. It suddenly occurred to me that I was going to love Harvard--for I would no longer hear at every hour the bone-shivering vibrations and thunder of a certain bell. Alas, my second morning here I was most rudely disillusioned...
...Thayer 53, they are telling one another eagerly, of what may be done. Four A's at November hours and Group I; time to spare for the new-found liberty; for Brattles, for the theatre, for opera, for football, for the Tent and a rag and a bone. Harvard is the world's greatest University...