Word: ribbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native Ireland at twelve to go to sea, knocked out 39 opponents in 54 fights, yet lost his crucial bouts with Heavyweight Champions Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He came closest to the title in 1899 when he battled Jeffries at Coney Island for 25 rib-cracking rounds under a broiling bank of 400 arc lights (for an early attempt at indoor movies). After running a famous bar on Manhattan's 14th Street, he drifted to the West Coast, died a pauper...
...Second Reformation. By then, Mary and Bernarr were beginning to drift apart. It was all very well for him to dream, as he slept on the floor encased in "The Macfadden Body-Free Blanket Rib," of becoming the "first Physical Culture President of the United States," but Mary blanched at the thought of becoming known as the "Constantly Pregnant First Lady." She had borne him four daughters under the "no-doctors" rules of Macfadden birthmanship, and now he felt that four sons (conceived by following the Macfadden rules of sex determination) would nicely round off "The Perfect Family." Mary obliged...
Spearhead & Rib. Postmaster Oscar Shay, an enthusiastic amateur of Portales, N. Mex., recently found what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
When not busy selling stamps and sorting mail. Postmaster Shay kept digging systematically near Blackwater Draw. At last he found what looked like a human bone. He took it to Archaeologist Frank Hibben of the University of New Mexico, who identified it as a human rib. Since it came from the same stratum as the dire wolf that had tangled with a Folsom hunter. Dr. Hibben believes that it is a Folsom bone, the first ever found. He hopes that further digging will turn up the rest of the skeleton. Then science will get a real look at shadowy Folsom...
...finally reflected some of the drops in livestock prices which had fallen 20% since August. In big ads in Chicago and New York, A & P compared last year's retail prices with 1953's (e.g., $1.08 for sirloin steak in New York v. 89? now, $1.15 for rib lamb chops v. 75? now and 90? for boneless chuck v. 65? now). All farm commodities had dropped an average of 12% under a year ago, the lowest price levels since Korea. With most commodities close to their support levels, farm economists doubted if wholesale prices would go much lower...