Word: pound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international smart set's Lady Mendl, eightyish, tempted the palates of Vogue readers with her own recipes for some dishes that mother never even thought of making, e.g., Kidneys Ali-Bab ("brown one pound of veal kidneys . . . set aflame with a glass of brandy...
Much has been made of the fact that the Big Green deprived of the entire side of its line through graduation and other calamities. This may be so, but the fact remains that they still sport a left end Dave Beeman, as six foot, five inch, 205-pound end who has been a letterman for two years; Ted Eberle, a tackly who filled in behind Johnny Jenkins last year; and Jim Mclville, another 205 pound, two letter man, at guard...
...devaluation of the pound affected...
...cost Mr. Fairless a nickel of his own to agree that every steelworker have a mansion, a yacht and an ulcer . . . The bill for the welfare plan will finally be passed along to that great body of shoppers (ie., consumers), including the steelworkers, who go out to buy a pound of nails, a spool of barbed wire, or a pair of roller skates for the kids. The subsidized and politically favored minorities will be able to afford it, and the rest will sit back on their thin billfolds and think how wonderful it is to have a Great White Father...
...pound might work no miracles: but at least it was honest" [TIME, Sept. 26]. No devaluation of the monetary unit of value is ever honest ... It will always be stealing, or in other words confiscating, the savings of the thrifty, those who have denied themselves in order to invest in life insurance, government bonds, or in bank savings accounts...