Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe. He is one of the leaders in McAdoo's campaign. A large dinner was given in Manhattan for Mr. Amidon, and many McAdooans assembled. It appeared from their discussion that their problem will be to corral delegates from several of the larger states. Mr. McAdoo is "bone dry." The chances are that it will be very difficult to get delegates from states like New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, to accept a totally dry candidate...
...King Albert: "As my mount galloped about the Chateau de Laequen, he caught his foot in a hole and was thrown, with the result that a bone in my wrist was broken...
...treatment to reduce an abnormal thymus gland was applied under the direction of Dr. Mary Halton. The thymus is a small ductless gland situated at the base of the neck, whose functions are imperfectly understood, though its secretion or " hormone " is believed to influence children's growth and bone formation. It is present in children from before birth until puberty...
...Amsterdam, Netherlands, was rehabilitation of war and industrial cripples. It was the first congress since the war to include representatives of both the Allied and Central powers. The American delegate was Col. Fred H. Albee, professor of orthopedic surgery at the Post-Graduate Hospital, New York, who lectured on bone grafting...
...possibility of the inheritance of acquired characteristics - that bone of contention around which so much of evolutionary conflict has raged for 100 years-has received new support from the work of Professor Paul Kammerer, of the University of Vienna, who has just demonstrated his findings before the Cambridge University Society of Natural History. The theory, first developed by Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), who held that changes in the individual due to altered needs and habits are passed on to descendants (e. g., the neck of the giraffe is long because its ancestors had to stretch to reach the foliage...