Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to alter their standards in the near future. It is only fair to Army's opponents to do so. Such a change will not only remove an unethical principle from football and keep the Army on good terms with all the universities, but it would also remove the bone of contention from the Army-Navy quarrel and make the resumption of relations between the two service institutions the natural outcome...
Master of tariff ceremonies was Oregon's Republican Representative Willis Chatman Hawley, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee and No. 1 House conferee with the Senate. Big, slow-spoken, slow-witted, substantial, Congressman Hawley is a high protectionist to the bone. Only too proud is he to have his name go down to posterity on the 1930 Tariff Act. In last week's House contest he personified the orthodox high tariff Republican ideal. Against him were arrayed insurgent Republicans and low-tariff Democrats, leaderless through the absence of Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, minority chief...
...hand-to-claw combat. The spear or bayonet must be sharp enough to penetrate the thick, rubbery pelt through which no dog can bite; long enough so that an impaled tiger's claws cannot reach the hunter. The spot to aim for with the bayonet is the breast bone, a not-too-difficult mark after one has been charged by a tiger a few times and learns to aim coolly. The best way is to get down on one knee and brace yourself when the beast charges...
...Bone drys can extract little comfort from the returns. In the aggregate they are distinctly unfavorable to an uncompromising prohibition program and they dispose effectively of the delusion that when the "dying generation of topers" disappears, dryness will become as prevalent as aridity in Gobi...
...borings were actually started. From the chalk cliffs of Dover and from the French shore near Sangatte, mile-long galleries were driven out under the Channel floor. Proving the theory of Engineer de Gamond that the Dover chalk beds run out under the Channel, these abandoned galleries are still bone dry, impervious, free from fissures...