Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard still boasts many a faculty giant like the Law School's Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, but in time they must yield and withdraw as Economist Frank William Taussig and Shakespearean George Lyman Kittredge did this year (TIME, Feb. 17). To replace them. President Conant admits, will be harder now that the growth of State Universities has pushed Harvard from its "natural pre-eminence," made it uncertain that a promising young scholar will heed the once undeniable "call" from Cambridge...
...industrial research ("White Rats And Healthy Babies"). The copy goes in for such facts as that U. S. citizens have added more than two inches to their stature in the past 50 years, that it requires about $9,000 of capital to make one U. S. job. that one pound of automobile costs considerably less than one pound of butter. Stressing "The American Way" like the other efforts to sell Big Business to the public, the N. W. Ayer copy is reprinted in booklet form for free distribution...
...spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special offers of bread at two loaves for 12?, five pounds of sugar for 15?, potatoes at 2? a pound...
Since Dean Pound resigned a year ago, President Conant has conducted an intensive search through the country for a successor. He is reported to have approached Dean Goodrich of the Pennsylvania Law School and Professor Austin Scott among others but they have declined the post...
...fine pieces of silverware. While few people realized it, one of Paul Revere's biggest sources of income was his manufacture of false teeth. While none of these are on view George Washington had a fine set, specially made by Revere, and it is to these, which weighed one pound, and pulled his jaw quite out of shape, that the Father of His Country owed the dour expression of his later life...