Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockefeller Center building now being constructed will run, at 1.200 ft. per min. (14 mi. per hr.). Speed is scarcely felt, because the cars start and stop smoothly. But many passengers become uncomfortable as they ride. The air pressure atop the great tower buildings is about one-half pound per square inch less than at the street level. Elevator passengers feel the difference as an annoying pressure on the ear drums. They overcome the discomfort by pretending to swallow. That action opens the eustachian tubes, allows air pressure on the inner sides of the ear drums to equalize air pressure...
...Drinkwater '35, 180-pound Jayvee tackle, was taken up to the Varsity squad yesterday...
...which will lead to the disruption of the Empire and' [are] fraught with great danger to our international relations"; 2) to declare with the immense financial authority of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer that Great Britain now faces an economic crisis more disastrous than last year (when the pound slipped off gold); 3) to resign as Lord Privy Seal, denouncing Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald as a traitor to the traditional Labor Party tenet of Free Trade...
...three weeks of practice the Crimson chances of making a decent showing are negligible, against a strong Blue team with a regular schedule of four games. The Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports should realize that a severe beating by Yale will not quell the desire for 150-pound football, but will only result in a vociferous demand for a return of the full season...
Since a considerable part of the demand for a 150-pound team arises from the fact that its players have a chance to win their minor H, it might be well to grant minor letters or some such insignia to the champion House football team meeting Yale...