Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, (longtime missionary in Japan), looked toward Japan, urged a more Christian attitude toward the Japanese. He recalled that President Roosevelt had refused the gift of a letter opener carved from a bone of a dead Japanese, that the skulls of Japanese soldiers have been sent to America. "However such actions . . . may have been provoked . . ." he wrote, "they cannot but be condemned...
...target, impelled by the electrical voltage. Their speed goes up with the voltage-and the higher their speed, the more penetrating are the X rays produced when they collide with the metallic target. Low-voltage or "soft" X rays are sufficient to reveal cavities in teeth or the bones of the hand, because bone absorbs them and thus throws a "shadow" on the photograph. But to reveal gas bubbles or minute flaws in steel armor plate, very "hard" rays are needed, hence a very high voltage in the tube...
...Like a bone fought over until picked clean, Senator Walter F. George's Reconversion Bill was finally passed by Congress last week and dropped on the President's desk. After more than a month of battling, there was little meat left on the bill; certainly it had few of the muscles needed to handle the Atlantean job of shifting the U.S. back to peace...
...blood-plasma extracts, one like skin, the other like bone, were announced a fortnight ago by the Harvard Medical School's Department of Physical Chemistry. The laboratory work was done under Dr. Edwin Joseph Cohn, who perfected the extraction of "measles globulin" and other human-blood components for the Army & Navy (TIME, June 5). The new extracts, both plastics...
Easy on the eyes, it also gives the funny bone a workout, what with Mr. James Durante giving out raucous and riotons as a has-been actor making a come-back. Durante's real-life comeback gives his nostalgic character job much pathos and effect, along with his side-splitting humor. And with Young Man with a Horn Harry James tooting a mean tube, Gracie Allen going through the paces of her one-fingered piano comedy-classic, and Jose Iturbi doing some serious and dignified ivory-tickling, "Two Girls and A Sailor" has something of just about everything...