Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While a man with a broken bone or split kidney receives the same treatment as a Varsity player, the fact that he is allowed two weeks in a hospital and all surgeons fees expense paid seems slight recompense for an avoidable injury. As long as intramural football operates on a collegiate level, there should be some attempt to prepare players for big-time games. A smaller schedule, with a total of twenty-five games and three weeks of pre-season training, would ease the pressure on teams now held to a thirty-five game schedule with only a short practice...
Three lieutenants to provide the back-bone of the editorial bard of the 1951 Freshman Redbook were named by Donald M. Maynard '51, recently designated as chairman himself by the Council Committee for Freshman Affairs...
...minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...
...bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...
...advertising agencies. "Get some ideas." He told the agency men to meet him three days hence in Washington's Carlton Hotel. While copywriters and layout artists worked and slept in their offices and a Chicago photocopy company worked overtime copying posters and exhibits, Luckman retired with reports to bone up on the problem of food. The problem was gigantic but simple. To save Europe, the U.S. had to ship 570,000,000 bushels of grain abroad. At the present rate of domestic consumption only 470,000,000 bushels would be available. The U.S. people had to save...