Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cartilage sheathing the ends of the bones, and fusion of joint bones. The hypertrophic form, which usually occurs in older people as a result of wear & tear, is less severe, less painful. The ends of the bones grow thicker and their cartilage coverings slip off and work their way around joint cavities (joint mice), leaving the raw edges of the joint-bones to scrape together...
Their little 99-page book is illustrated with pigs running, boys fishing, trapeze artists swinging, clocks walking ("time marches on" = present tense). This is the way A Living Grammar teaches children to remember the parts of speech...
Back from a trip to Trinidad, Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's curator of mammals and reptiles, shamefacedly admitted that on the way home he had eaten twelve large, golden-hued frogs which had been intended for exhibition...
...order not to let the dollar go to a premium against currencies that would cut off U. S. foreign trade. Secretary Morgenthau refused to let this worry him. Declaring that the U. S. is standing by its tripartite agreement with Great Britain and France, he professed satisfaction with the way the U. S. stabilization fund was meeting the emergency...
...session, attend ance was to the mosque's capacity as Mr. Emery's $50,000 business is to U. S. Steel Corp. A Philadelphia cloak & suit man named Charles Bloome offered a resolution to move the convention downtown so that he could save 75? cab fare each way. Mr. Emery: "Why can't five delegates ride in the same cab?" Mr. Bloome: "No five small businessmen could ride 75? worth together without getting in a fight." Thereupon the delegates began to fight about the definition of a small business man. A resolution to exclude all bankers from...