Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aquinca cometh from the foot hills, liveth not with us but runneth back and forth daily like a dog returning ever to a hidden bone. He hath no interest in us, and careth not what he may give but only what he may gain. He lacketh the gentler qualities of good breeding. His garments offendeth our eyes. He gaineth mental prowess only by long labour which we disdain. Wherefore is he here? His preparation was among persons of his own sort and now he cometh from them, intruding here amongst...
...second crew race and the following spring he was elected captain of the second oarsmen. A week before the Yale race last year he broke his collar bone and was replaced by S. A. Duncan...
...John Harvard's pantry. He probably realizes that he won't be received with a "Help yourself." In fact it is only fair to warn him that there is a cry about the Square, requesting that the same treatment be given him as the possum; "Carve him to the bone". A peculiar sort of hospitality, that! But for that matter a peculiar sort of quest; we have heard that growl before--it means business...
...earnest effort to square the outgo with the income, the railroads are cutting expenses to the bone," continued Professor Cunningham. "Some of these cuts are real economies, such as those which come from increases in the efficiency of operating trains, stations, and yards. Others are not real--they are merely borrowing from the future. For example, the repair work on way structures and equipment has been radically curtailed. Locomotive and car shops have been partly or wholly closed, and programs for renewals of ties, rails and ballast have been reduced to a fraction of the requirements. Obviously this is deferred...
...question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere...