Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine of operation, and how extremely intangible are the aims of the tutorial system, especially in its bloom of youth. One vaguely refers to it as a helping hand, a coordinating influence, a personal guide; and it is all of these things, but it is also the bone and marrow of a great educational theory...
...spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime it is not necessary wholly to damn the merry-merry, which is, to some, a bone on which to gnaw during a famine...
...have reason to believe," wrote the Prince of Wales, "that when anyone in this country digs up a bone, his first instinct (subject to the intervention of the police) is to send it to Sir Arthur Keith...
...Algeria, Alonzo W. Pond of the Logan Museum (Beloit College) found a prehistoric child's bones, beneath a layer of flint and bone implements. Mr. Pond was inclined to join the school of thought which designates Africa as the cradle of humanity...
Disadvantages: lack of portability (air supply is stationary or clumsy to move); noise, which might bother some operators and would certainly bother patients having a bone chiseled under local anesthesia, while conscious...