Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson Jeffers, such items as a letter containing a check to Rupert Brooke for one of his war sonnets, returned marked deceased-the exhibition was notable for its revelation of the number of first-class writers Harriet Monroe had discovered. To U. S. readers Poetry introduced Yeats, Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rupert Brooke when they had only small reputations abroad, brought out poets of the stature of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Vachel Lindsay, who had never published anywhere until Poetry gave them an outlet...
Because German bakers use 800,000,000 eggs a year in making their rich pastries, the Nazi Government was delighted to find a substitute by which it hopes to save 400,000,000 eggs a year. Out of 32 pounds of cheap fish is made a pound of extract which is supposed to be an adequate substitute for 160 hens' eggs. To make this extract palatable to Germans who had more than a bellyful of Ersatz (substitutes) during the War, and have been fed up with it again as a result of Nazi isolation policies, the Government hit upon...
...star astronomers look to Antares, a red supergiant 400,000,000 miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank as the largest star known to astronomy...
...score of the Freshman match was 35 to 5, the only loss being a default in the 118 pound class...
Lists and summaries should fill the first pages, forming a chronological record of the principal rowing events, together with the individual names and classes of the winners. These should number all intercollegiate events such as Varsity, Freshman, 150 pound, Jayvees, and intramural sculling...