Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plaster cast. At the top is a hollow needle containing a fine electric wire. X-ray pictures are taken to establish the exact position of the thalamus; the legs of the instrument are adjusted to place the needle exactly over it. The patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle is cut out by conventional surgery. Then the needle is lowered like a well-digger's rig into the thalamus, and the searing electric current turned on. After a year's experiments with animals, Drs. Spiegel and Wycis were ready for their first human...
...waterfall (now a dry lava cliff). Half a mile below the "falls," Stahl found a little rounded hill which must have been a pleasant spot in late Pleistocene times. "Here," he said, "is where I would camp if I were a Pinto Man." He dug holes in the bone-dry earth. Three feet below the surface he found stone artifacts characteristic of Pinto...
...haired Curator Mark R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, was pocking the hill with carefully dug excavations. Working with trowels and brushes in 100° heat, they turned up spear points, grinding stones and the charcoal of ancient fires. Their prize find: a piece of human thigh bone. Curator Harrington believes that the site was inhabited seasonally by 300 to 400 people about 10,000 years...
Until Harrington found the thigh bone, almost nothing personal was known about Pinto Man. But careful study of the bone showed that the ancient hunter was short (5 ft. 6 in.) and squat...
...singing of "Avec Son Tra-la-la" (Boom!) left nothing to be desired but more. However there are two things about Mile. Delair that some may find disturbing: (1) her face looks as if it were in the early stages of mumps, and (2) she apparently has no hip-bones. Now everyone knows that the heroines of movies should weigh at most 118 pounds, and should try to have as much bone structure evident as health will permit and Harper's Bazaar will sanction. Suzy Delair breaks those rules and then some. She is as luxurious, as inviting...