Word: boner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book which TIME researchers call their "bible." It catalogues sources of information on almost every possible news subject, and every one of TIME'S 55 researchers has a copy. Of course the researchers supplement this book with many other procedures to "block that boner" (for example, they are required to pencil a dot over every word in every article to show they have checked it)-and in addition, six or more writers and editors work on every story...
Your medical editor passed quite a "boner" in your marvelous tale from Brazil (TIME, Feb. 5) in which it is stated that "X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's appendix had actually been removed [during a seance in a dark room]." Every medical man knows that the barium shadow of the appendix when in situ [in the body] is rarely seen. . . . The absence of such a shadow cannot possibly prove that the appendix is missing...
...Salt Lake City Willkie made a minor boner. Newsmen, with Utah mining and cattlemen in mind, asked Willkie his position on high tariffs. Said Wendell Willkie: obviously, he was against them. Then he added: "Asking me that is like asking me if I favor sin." Around high-tariff-minded, sin-conscious Utah went word that Willkie thought all tariffs and sin synonymous...
...crashing boner in teaming up with Hitler was now added inescapable evidence that Finland had waited too long to open negotiations with her big neighbor and old enemy. Yet Ryti & Co. could not bring themselves to talk hard peace sense; Finland's-innate distrust of Russia was still powerful. Fortnight ago Premier Edwin Linkomies let it be known that Finland would like peace-if she could have her 1939 frontiers. Last week Russophobe Finance Minister Vaino Tanner said Finland would be glad to resume normal relations with Russia, provided "we could get a guarantee that we will...
...Prize boner on the final may well have been pulled by the man who said that he would give the C. O. the combination of the disbursing office safe if he looked honest! The correctors are reported to have learned many new facts of disbursing from reading exam answers pertaining to allotment procedure, copies made of Treasury checks, Treasury statements and payroll vouchers...