Word: sinew
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...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...
...against a $1.50 dividend requirement. Although the second half is the harder one for motor companies, GM enters the final stretch with working capital of $328,000,000 against $290,000,000 a year ago. If working capital is the backbone of a company, cash is its sinew. GM has $245,000,000 deposited in banks and invested in Government bonds...
...ties the Ambassador passed with ever-increasing fervor and sincerity to the theme of Motherhood. "We have recently had in London," he cried, "a body of American travelers representing a cross section of the American people, representing the heart and soul of the American people, representing the bone and sinew of the American people and the proud attitude of the American people?a body of travelers not self-invited, with their minds occupied by thoughts of society reporters or fashionable dressmakers, but mothers invited by the Government of the United States to make their first and last visit...
...fire under seven feet of gypsum in a Nevada cave. The fire was surrounded by bones of a giant ground sloth which apparently the fire-builder had dis patched and eaten. Also in the cave were discovered 900 man-things, including scores of long fighting darts, feathers bound with sinew (probably a religious piece), a white stone knife, gypsum pendants...