Word: sinew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hams which must be cured (one month to three) and sausage which must hang in the drying rooms four months before being passed by inspectors. Of a 250-lb. hog all but 9.38 Ib. goes into edible products. The residue consists of hides for tanning, hair, skin and sinew good for glue, grease for lubricants, bones for buttons, bone-handles, Mah-Jongg sets and dust. Orientals pay more than $100 per Ib. for hog gallstones. The ultimate remainder is brewed, dried and ground, sold as stock feed. Only the paunch manure is not used for anything. And, as stockroom adage...
...long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat...
...only to the British appetite for beef, but also to the British appetite for advertising, which may be why an attempt to Bovrilize the U. S. several years ago failed. Almost as delectable as Bovril are such Bovril puns as, "When it's in you-it's sinew!" or, "Don't let him-Mrs. Bovril." Bovril slogans can be didactic ("Bovril puts beef into you"), appositive ("The world-famous beef-tea"), enticing ("Bovril tickles the palate"), or purely comic ("Take Bovril and keep up to Pa," with a picture of a small boy standing on a bottle...
...often do you find an eminent young scientist shopping at the ribbon counter of a 5^ & 10^ store. Yet it was there that 30-year-old Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff, a Princeton graduate student (on a National Research Council fellowship) purchased the chief sinew of an invention, demonstrated publicly for the first time last week, of which President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. says: "[It] opens up the possibilities of transmutation of the elements on a commercial scale...
Author Raynolds' tale is of two brothers, men of stature and sinew, who roam together through the Western U.S. forests and are devoted to each other. The indeterminate time is laid somewhere in the 19th Century, well before civilization had made romance an undesirable alien. But Author Raynolds, though he is at some pains to set a convincing forest-&-wilderness scene, is not concerned with being historically accurate. The Brothers talk sometimes like minor prophets and sometimes like sophomores; but you don't mind: it is all a kind of legend, with a good enough yarn to carry...