Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium the bread ration had been cut to eight ounces daily, meat to two ounces (including bone) a day. There was no butter, no lard, no coffee, little sugar. In France even Marshal Pétain had to dig out his out his ration card for the waiters, to have the coupons clipped for the grams he consumed-and an average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied...
...Dallas, the Cotton Bowl was packed for the first time, to see the bone-crushing Texas Aggies tackle the bone-crushing Fordham Rams. The Aggies had Jarrin' John Kimbrough, who was reportedly offered $37,500 last week to turn professional next year with the upstart New York Yankees. The Rams had no Kimbrough, but they had a better backfield, a better line. After outplaying the Farmers for two periods, the Rams were caught napping, watched the Texans score one touchdown, then another, to win the game by one point...
...John H. Rowe 2G, the group excavated part of an Indian burial ground, and after nine days of intensive work they had obtained a chest full of pottery, tools made of bone, and arrowheads. These had been deposited in a burial mound which had been constructed even before the coming of the Seminole tribes to Florida...
General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...
...bone cancers especially, said Dr. Kenney last week, radioactive phosphorus "offers a real hope...