Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adelbert Fernald, G. '96, Instructor in Orthodontia and Curator of the Dental Museum, for two years; to assist in perfecting measuring instruments for ascertaining the natural development of normal bone growth in a child from birth so that a comparison of the normal average bone growth of a healthy child may be made with those which are abnormal, to the twelfth or thirteenth year...
...biological litterateur, expressed (in picturesque terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone...
...said a black cat's- / mean bone. I swear to God my man's got a black...
...bone- Every time I start to leave I gotta come...
...bone...