Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frozen-Food Saw. A toothed knife to cut frozen food was put on the market by W. R. Case & Sons Co. of Bradford, Pa. "Freez-Cut," which leaves no ragged edges, also cuts through bone. Price...
Died. Jay Catherwood Hormel, 61, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co.; of a heart ailment; in Austin, Minn. As a World War I lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, Hormel won the plaudits of the brass by showing meat packers how to bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast...
...swimming, the No plays are closed down. To cap these indignities, when Nobuko's son falls ill, her husband's geisha flaunts her status by sending a get-well present for the boy. Nobuko, who almost never sees her husband any more, falls ill (tuberculosis of the bone). In nightly agonies of pain, she struggles with Death, "fighting like a child with only one weapon, talking to him in a lonely night watch." But the Great Commoner finally quells her aristocratic spirit...
...just south of the bottom. Belts sagged low around the haunch, embracing a girl where there is most to embrace. The plunging neckline, an enticing vista down which men had been peering happily for years, was firmly closed over by featureless cloth. Even evening dresses hovered near the collar bone. Fashion editors burbled of "straight, flat pullovers," "oldfashioned middy blouses...
...Horites were excellent craftsmen. They made fine pottery and effective tools out of bone, flint and copper. The copper they smelted from ore out of the same deposits south of the Dead Sea that King Solomon mined many centuries later. They pulverized it with massive stones and roasted it in furnaces under a forced draught from blowpipes...