Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local hotel, toothbrushes, sugar, and a downtown theatre. The hotel-eulogizer happens to be a friend of ours who yesterday showed us a letter from the hotel's management expressing the hope that their house would continue worthy of his praise. This note was followed by a one-pound box of chocolates...
...pound ball of the fibre, if straightened out, would stretch from coast to coast of the U. S. A woman's undergarment made of it could be concealed in the palm of the hand. It is 150% finer than any previous rayon, 33% finer than natural silk. It was developed almost simultaneously by three manufacturers and no one has an exclusive claim...
...neutral view from Yale, which has neither farms nor oilwells, was injected by Lester Clyde Lichty and E. J. Ziurys: "The fuel economies accompanying the increased compression ratios made possible by the use of alcohol are offset, both theoretically and from engine test, by its lower heating value per pound of fuel. ... It requires about 1.67 lb. of alcohol to liberate the same amount of energy as . . . by one pound of gasoline...
John W. Perry '36 was elected captain yesterday of the Varsity 150-pound crew. Perry is a veteran oarsman, having rowed Yale three times in the lightweight class. He is bow in the present fifty shell, the position he has held since his Freshman year...
...headed by Irving Folwarthshny and William Rowe, each of whom is potentially capable of ten foot more in the hammer throw than Norm Cahners, top Harvard man who hurled it 162 feet in the recent handicap meet. Folwarthshny also has a world record to his credit in the 35-pound weight throw, won in winter competition...