Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corp. sales agents. Last week at Detroit, Flyer Schlee was turning over a plane propeller by hand, to start the motor. He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor. His motor did not start. The propeller kicked back, struck him, tore flesh, broke an arm bone, concussed his brain. Detroit surgeons found that he had a fair chance to live...
Diplomacy-as so many diplomats so often assert-is a profession. Last week, like a clan of impeccable Harley Street physicians shuddering over the success of some popular "bone setter," the established diplomatic practitioners of London winced anew at Charles Gates Dawes. Publicly, with hearty fist-bangs upon a London banquet table, the U. S. Ambassador had just rasped and barked...
Last week, Business was more successful. Dr. Joseph Keats Marcus, onetime assistant professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, now an employe of Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis pharmaceutical manufacturers, has a process of quickly and efficiently extracting from cod livers the vitamins which promote growth and bone formations. Food manufacturers have bid for licenses to the Marcus process. To exploit that demand, shrewd businessmen last week organized for Dr. Marcus and themselves an International Vitamin Corp., with 200,000 no-par shares...
...week "and extras," was too valuable to the "doctor." Lashed to an iron cot in the canvas sack that was a straitjacket, North 3-1 struggled in vain to escape; and, doped as he was, he did not then feel the cords cutting through flesh to the bone of his arms, his ankles, the back of his neck. Severe infection set in. North 3-1 survived but was badly crippled. The occasional complaint that reached the outside world was promptly explained as insane maundering of an unbalanced mind. For such is the inevitable stranglehold that a keeper...
...Bone dust, eggs and ebony handles...