Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrown against the fire and could not move until they got her out after two or three hours. Both legs were very badly burnt; one had to be amputated, but they are trying to save the other. The doctor told Dad it was getting on slowly but as the bone was burnt in one place, it would be a very long job. They are now talking of a skin-graft, so it sounds as though it is going to be saved after all. The doctor told Dad that her stump had healed very well and that it would be ready...
...words, the Navy spends the first six weeks of its precious training time schooling the novice cadets in its traditions, odd jargon and technical functions. Before a cadet can pin on the silver bar of a Second Classman - the happy sign that he is at last flying - he must bone up for many a long, hot and sleepy hour on the rudiments of engines, aerodynamics, aerology, gunnery, navigation, the dit-dit-dahs of radio code...
...finest tributes to Handy was a letter in 1915 from an African trader in Sierra Leone: "Seeing that you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, I desire to enter into some relations whereby we [in Africa] may avail ourselves of your music." Handy's book, like his music, is most significant as the life story of a talented Negro in the U.S. Handy makes neither much nor little of the racial question, but he does refer to it, on occasion. And now & again he speaks directly, for Jews as well as Negroes, with a lack...
...Most thorough work so far has been done with radio-phosphorus. Hevesy and others have found that phosphorus turnover (metabolism) is slowest in the brain, somewhat faster in muscles and other organs, fastest in bones (which use 75% of the body's phosphorus). Since 1938 doctors have been using radio-phosphorus instead of radium or X-ray exposure in the treatment of leukemia, a mysterious cancerlike disease of the blood and blood-forming tissue such as bone marrow. This is the first therapeutic application resulting from tracer studies with radioelements...
...Forester knows his ships and how they are handled, and he uses that knowledge as the blood and bone of his action. He never just blows up a loud atmosphere of adventure; every stratagem, every seafaring event is an intricate equation of courage, technique and sea-chance. He could make the sea exciting to a sailor, and its ways understandable to the harbor master of an Iowa graveyard...