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Carter himself has boned up carefully on tax reform.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the next revolutionary change in power plants may come from the atom, Sporn has boned up on the problem, is one of the top U.S. authorities on industrial uses of atomic energy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The aggressively erudite author of Panic has boned up this time on the ancient Picts, the psychology of juvenile delinquency and Poe's Purloined Letter.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Morton boy has boned down here like a slave.

From Flood Tide by Bassett, Sara Ware