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Word: boned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actually Semion Budenny is a man. He has lots of brawn on his fine body, but he also has more than his share of bone between his ears. He always was, and probably still is, a great fighter. But he is not a strategist. He is still a cavalry noncom of incredible dash and dumbness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Bringing Back An Army | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...still play it. It was suggested to the legendary son of Methuselah by the sight of the skeleton leg of his own dead son, whose body he had suspended (it was the custom) from a tree. The lute's body represented the thighbone, its long neck, the leg bone; its bent head, the foot; its tuning pegs, the toes; its strings, the dried veins fluttering from the bones. The lute was the great instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance until the viols drowned it out. In shape, its only popular successor is the lowly mandolin; but in sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Man With a Lute | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...fighting Dunster eleven subdued the favored Adams House aggregation 6-0 yesterday while a bone-crushing Dudley squad was feeding Eliot a 13-0 defeat on a neighboring gridiron...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: Funsters Upset Littlemen 6 to 0 Dudley Hands Eliot 13 to 0 Loss | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

...Phosphorous, which settles in the bone marrow and spleen, is used for the cancer-like blood disease, leukemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray Experts | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Strontium of the calcium group sinks to the bones, has been used to treat cancers which migrate from breast to bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray Experts | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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