Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doug Jones is one of those fighters who spend ten years beating most of the best boys around without even getting the big chance. He is a yardstick fighter, a constant to measure the up-and-comers by. His near KO of Cassius finally mortalized the Louisville Lip for the sportswriters. His KO of Folley was the beginning of the end for the Arizona boxer. Doug's hard punching and ring savvy would provide the perfect test for Terrell...
...currently have reached or are fast reaching that saturation point." International steelmakers figure the saturation point at about 1,100 Ibs. a year per person;* when a nation reaches that level of steel consumption, such substitutes as plastic and aluminum begin to cut severely into steel sales. By this yardstick, the U.S., West Germany and Sweden are already near saturation-and several other countries are on their...
...path of totality who stretch a white sheet on the ground may see the mysterious shadow bands, which are somehow caused by irregularities in the earth's atmosphere. They appear as vague lines of light and dark, drifting roughly parallel. An amateur who uses simple apparatus (a yardstick to record their direction and estimate their dimensions) can observe them about as well as professional astronomers...
These students are asked to give up the freedom within the University which goes with the right and the fact of being different. A principle is here involved which challenges the presumption that one race must be omnipresent and that it shall be the "yardstick" by which the freedom of non-white races will be determined. Archie C. Epps...
Bizarre Measure. By Blair's bizarre measure, the Post last week succeeded be yond its wildest dreams. Wally Butts's lawyers said that they would strain Blair's yardstick with a $10 million libel suit. Already headed for the courts is a $5,000,000 suit filed by Marlon Brando, after a Post piece said that "he wasted $6,000,000 by sulking on the set" of Mutiny on the Bounty. Bear Bryant, who brought a $500,000 action last fall, after the Post accused him of teaching brutal football, says that he will file another suit...