Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which ancients compared to a shield. (Greek thyreos means shield, and the word is properly thyreoid.) But the thyroid spans the windpipe more like a pair of saddle bags. In most people the lobes can be seen as gentle swells along the sides of the neck above the collar bone. The thyroid increases in size normally and temporarily in boys and girls at puberty, in women during menstruation and lactation...
George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S., broke his collar bone when his mount fell in the Raceland Steeplechase at Pimlico...
...territory proportionately to its size than any other world nation. Last fortnight the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague clinched Denmark's claim to all Greenland, 50 times as big as Denmark (TIME, April 17). Last week like a small dog that has just buried one bone. Denmark whirled bristling to protect another...
...much-gnawed bone is Schleswig-Holstein. In 1460 the Kings of Denmark became Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein, agreed never to join it to Denmark. They kept their word for almost 200 years, then lost it to Sweden, got it back in chunks. In 1806 Schleswig-Holstein was joined to Denmark. In 1848 Denmark allowed German-populated Holstein to join the German Confederation and during the next two years beat off Prussia's ungrateful attempt to seize Schleswig too. But in 1864 Austria and Prussia ganged up on Denmark, bloodily took Schleswig away. For 50 years Schleswig and Holstein were...
...Cycling is the hardest game in the world. Compared to it hockey is child's play. Once, when I was riding in New York, I broke three ribs on the fourth day, continued, and won. Another time I won with a broken collar bone that I smashed on the first night. But I took my prettiest spill right here in Boston. I was trying out the Arena track before a grind when I fractured my skull, broke my nose, cracked my collar bone, cut my face badly, and busted my jaw in three places. I didn't enter that race...