Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government Department that got the cruellest blow when the axe fell on ten assistant professors last June. For a long time it limped along painfully, its staff pared to the bone, trying to handle one of the biggest enrollments in the College. Lately it has been getting back on its feet, but Professor Holcombe, head of the Department, still has his heart set on another permanent appointee, and he deserves one. Accordingly, he has picked up his wheel of fortune; around and around she goes, and where she will stop, nobody knows. But the needle is quivering in the direction...
...structures planned by most modernists have run not to flesh but bone. Pleased, therefore, were many lay visitors to "Versus" to note that the trend is away from chromium, away from bony angles, toward solid design and comfort...
...Manhattan idyl, Two on an Island. But where Rice, turned slickster, wears false face and speaks in falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid and pulsing scenes in Night Music; and at least the hero (admirably played by Elia Kazan) is thoroughly alive...
Causes for backache include occupations which keep the worker in strained positions for long periods, persistent standing and sitting in slouched attitudes, infections of the spine which eat away bone material, and acute infection in other parts of the body which produce pain in the hollow of the back...
Sophomore Abbot Fenn will guard the nets in place of Freedley, who never again will be able to play hockey because of a serious fracture of his cheek bone which he received in the Toronto tilt...