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Word: pound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it took no racing start, Patrick Henry's boat was able to keep in the running, trailing Wilson's 150-pound shell at the finish line by a length and a half. The other shells finished closely behind only a few yards apart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILSON'S BOAT LEADS FIVE YARDLING CREWS | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

...late Judge Cuthbert Pound of New York pungently remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quinn Declares O'Hara No Harvard Man; Chafee Explains Own Position | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

...week ago the shot put, the pole vault, 35-pound weight throw, and the high jump were held in the Carey Cage. And today Coach Neufeld conducted the broad jump, the 80-yard high hurdles, the 120-yard low hurdles, the 160-yard dash, the 80-yard dash, the half-mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANDICAP TRACK MEET SUCCESSFULLY ENDED | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

...interference with their consumption of daily bread, many U. S. poets protest that that daily bread is so full of holes that it is more like daily starvation. Some of them, to get more literary nutrition, have gone to Europe: Missourian T. S. Eliot lives in England; Idahoan Ezra Pound lives in Italy. Others who have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have managed on their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: E Pluribus Duo | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Finishing up the University Handicap Track Meet, runners and jumpers today compete in the remaining nine events. Tuesday, under the supervision of Coaches Mikkola and Neufeld, four events, the 36 pound weight, the pole vault, the high jump, and the shot put were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handicap Track Meet Finals Will Be Held This Afternoon Beginning at 2:00 O'Clock | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

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