Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Pension system, another bone of contention between the two bargaining powers, was kept in full force despite the workers' previous demand that it be abolished at all costs. The issue was held up in earlier negotiations because it was felt that national legislation might outlaw Harvard's present insurance policy...
...huge, shaggy young Earl Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...
Abolition of the compulsory insurance plan, which the union says is forced arbitrarily upon Harvard workers, is another bone of contention between employer and employees. Stefani stated that the labor group prefers U. S. Social Security to Harvard's benefit system...
...Europe can you find as much difference between nations. ..." Lanky, ebullient Director d'Harnoncourt showed the difference in seven cunningly designed rooms: fine basketry and feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes of the plains; beautifully carved wooden ware of the Eastern Iroquois...
Last week India's prohibition movement made its biggest advance. India's second largest city, Bombay, will be bone dry next August-as far as Indians are concerned. Purred Mahatma Gandhi over his latest success: "If India carries out prohibition, it may well hasten the return of prohibition in the United States...