Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservative Party may be able to win a general election and five more years of power. "Last year," cried the Chancellor, in his at times lyric budget speech, "the people of this country sweetened their lives with 80,000 more tons of sugar, smoked 6,500,000 more pounds of tobacco and washed away their troubles with 270,000,000 pints of beer!" Beamishly Mr. Chamberlain announced, and as his words were uttered they instantly became effective throughout Great Britain, that the nuisance tax on cheap cinema seats is no more, pay raises go to the Army, the Navy...
Matching the Post in bad humor "Cissy" Patterson then sent her chauffeur to Eugene Meyer's home with a gorgeously decorated box. Inside was her card inscribed: "So as not to disappoint you.' Beneath a spray of freesia, sweet peas anc forget-me-nots, Publisher Meyer found pound of raw meat...
...special vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, William A. Smith '36, winner of the 165 pound title at the Eastern Intercollegiates, was awarded a major "H" for his victory. Other undergraduates who were honored with major "H's" were Richard Ford '36, Edward E. Langenau '35, and Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, who won the Epee Team Championship at the Intercollegiates, and German G. Glidden '36, who was the winner of the Intercollegiate Squash Championship...
Four-cornered race: first, third Varsity; second, 150-pound crew; third, Freshman seconds; fourth, Manhattan Jayvees...
...Conservative Party hands for nearly five years. One year ago the No. 1 steward, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, closed his annual budget with a triumphant surplus of ?31,148,000 (then $159.477,760), and reduced the basic British income tax rate from five shillings on the pound (25%) to four shillings sixpence (20%). Said hawk-nosed Mr. Chamberlain dryly, "I think the nation has finished the story of Bleak House and can begin that of Great Expectations...