Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lack of a proper system of child guidance is Morris' chief bone of contention' with the present system. His platform calls for a complete achievement record to be kept on each individual pupil, so that a precocious kindergarten block builder would possibly be steered into the construction trades as a high school youth, if his talent continued to express itself...
...book review--take heart. The book is not entirely flawless. For one thing, it is too short. Then perhaps, you're one of those who don't like "S.O.B." However, it is difficult to conceive that some part of "Benchley--or Else!" should fail to find the funny bone of any reader. It is a collection of 71 short articles, some of which appeared in print almost two decades ago, and it covers a vast expanse of human experience--pigeons, hiccoughs, botany exams, poker, bisons, thunderstorms, truffle poisoning, colds, culture, love in Hollywood, phobias, Schistosomiasis, etc., ad infinitum...
...Boning Up. In Denver, nine-year-old Richard Junk fell out of a tree, hoped to keep his injury secret, made a few discreet inquiries about the technique of bone-setting, did a capable job on his own broken...
...Wilfrid Eady, bone-tired after a year and a half of financial negotiations with Canada, Argentina, India and Egypt, had been dispatched to Washington, along with other financial experts. Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, was vacationing in the south of France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants...
...composing rooms all over the U.S., printers sat on sawed-off chairs before tinkling linotype machines and spelled out the news: their A.F.L. International Typographical Union had just thundered its answer to the Taft-Hartley law. The act had outlawed the closed-shop agreements that were the bone & sinew of the I.T.U. So the 95-year-old labor union would simply sign no more contracts. Its 1,001 locals would post unsigned "conditions of employment," and would work as long as the conditions prevailed. Any publisher who rashly tried to alter the conditions-or to hire non-union printers-would...