Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching. At 37 he sold his farm, took his wife and four children to old England. There he published his first two books of poetry (A Boy's Will, North of Boston) made friends with such fellow-poets as Edward Thomas, T. E. Hulme, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Ezra Pound. Thence he returned three years later to find himself a minor U. S. laureate. He turned to teaching again, for several years was "poet in residence" at the University of Michigan, now holds a similar position at Amherst. He has twice (1924, 1931) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
...graduates in the liberal and radical movements must remark the high proportion of Harvard men," the article states. Brief reference is made to the radical activities of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Oswald Garrison Villard '93, Felix Frankfurter, Lloyd K. Garrison '19, prominently mentioned as a candidate to succeed Dean Pound of the Law School, and many others...
Says Yale's Chemical Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas in his recent The Next Hundred, Years: "The energy requirements of the average person's body could be fulfilled by the daily consumption of less than a pound of soft coal. . . . My own advice, however, is: do not attempt a coal diet . . . hogs eat coal and enjoy it, but they also eat rattlesnakes and enjoy those, too."-ED. Planes & Weather...
Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials...
...annual dinner of the first and second 150-pound crews held last night, Mark H. Dall '37 was elected captain for the coming season. After the election the first crew presented to Coach Tot Hoople a large humidor...