Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leakey's finds in Kenya Colony 200 miles from the Oldoway gorge. The human fossils which Mr. Leakey has-he transported one in its aboriginal mold to London-are with little question pleistocene. They were built and buried like Oldoway. One had an iron ring around a toe bone. The ring seems a preposterous anachronism...
Oldest active six-day bicycle rider, McNamara boasts that he has broken his collar bone six times, all his ribs at least once, that he has 47 scars. One of them, running along his right cheek, gives his dark and friendly face a dangerous look which he enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called...
...Other bone mementos in the tomb of the Cloud warriors were "carved with a technique not surpassed by fine Chinese work on ivory," the carvings depicting events of history and details of ritual...
...forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck by an automobile in Manhattan last month, ex tended his convalescent visit at Nassau. because his recovery was so slow that he could not raise his arms above elbow...
...Auburn management cut costs to the bone in 1924, Cord sucked the marrow out of the bone. He has kept it out so strictly that his financial reputation now matches the rest of his legend. Because Auburn's common stock is one of the highest-priced and most sensitive on the New York Exchange, moving up or down anywhere from two to 15 points in a session, Errett Cord's name is as well known on Wall Street as in the Midwest. The stock's astonishing gyrations have given rise to many tales of pools and corners, most of them...