Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years "is characterized by an amazing reduction in mass." It shrinks from its skull casing like a dry sponge in a wooden box. The membranes which enfold it, in youth tough as Cellophane, grow delicate as tissue paper. Often they are patterned with small plaques of bone. Brain convolutions shrivel, the valleys growing wider than the hills. Strangely enough, said Dr. Kennedy, only the cerebral cortex, seat of intelligence, grows wrinkled and old. Other more primitive brain structures remain "almost normal." The cells of the cortex, usually some 14 billion, "are reduced in number . . . many have vanished utterly...
Probably a bad sprain or possibly a fracture of an ankle bone, the injury will keep Macdonald out of the lineup for at least ten days, and more likely longer...
...Simmons' study of a series of consecutive cases of bone sarcoma is showing that the prognosis of this group of tumors is not as bad as most people seem to believe. Dr. Grantly W. Taylor has been studying on the results obtained in a series of cases of cancer of the breast in which an artificial menopause was induced as a therapeutic measure...
...blood-and-bone balcony poised perilously...
More entertaining than most details uncovered were Hoppy's personal expense accounts, which his operating companies shared the honor of paying. Months ago the Federal Power Commission gravely looked over expense accounts which included such items as a 10? bone for an unidentified dog, other amounts for garters, suspenders, socks, flowers. Last week the New York Public Service Commission had another list, dug up by one of its exploring accountants. Examples: $410 for photographs (of Hopson), $956 for liquor, $337 for cigars, $1,218 for fruit, $49.50 for a bowl to put it in. An item reflecting the high...