Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvardman Thomas William Lament responded with a $500,000 endowment for a roving professorship, and President Conant last year indicated that he would finance a few more from the $5,500,000 Harvard received at its Tercentenary. Appointed last week was the first roving professor, 66-year-old Roscoe Pound, retiring dean of the Harvard Law School...
Gropius comes to School of Design as full professor. Pound "cuts" last class as prelude to trip around world...
...along, still in the Old Testament, finally whispered: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." Averaging about 185 words a minute, he had preached 21 hr. 20 min., spoken some 200,000 words. He went to bed, soon arose feeling fit and claiming he had gained a pound. Then he donned a white silk blouse of his own design, which he usually wears only at baptismal services, and posed for photographers...
...chairman. There may be 500 bars of gold for sale, orders for only 300, a "position" which would indicate a buyer's market.* After the chairman names the starting price-now the buying price of the Bank of France in terms of the latest quotation for pound sterling-the members make bids & offers, buying order being matched against selling order until supply & demand meet. The price at that point is the gold price for the day. The whole session usually lasts about ten minutes...
...beating a wastebasket yet. But soon . . . Yes, there goes that tinny one now, beaten with a shoe--cynical applause. Shucks, this fellow practicing on his violin in the dark shadows of the tower room gets as much response from the boys with a pound or so of wood and gut as a wild, untuned bell gets with a ton of metal on Sunday mornings...