Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Portable Powerhouse. A lightweight (101 Ibs.), four-cylinder, 25½-h.p. gasoline engine, which, its makers claim, packs more power per pound than other water-cooled engines, was put on the market by the Aerojet-General Corp., bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine is for industrial, farm and home workshop use. Price...
Before Read left Leeds to enter the service he met Robert Orage, editor of New Age, the most influential of the pre-war avant-garde literary periodicals. Orage introduced him to Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and T. E. Hulme, men who were to become guide posts in his synthesis of a literary style and criteria for criticism. Orage was active in the Social Credit movement, advocating a free-money economic system, and he converted the young man to his views. Social credit was not far enough; after the disillusionment of the war, it was easy for Read to make...
...shuttled tirelessly between his factory, which built four-engine bombers, and the front, at times taking cover from showers of steel arrows which German bomber pilots dumped on Russian airdromes. Then came the Revolution. Sikorsky left Russia with one suitcase and a thin sheaf of English pound notes...
...most likely starting candidate. He is a 185-pounder and was a starting linebacker last year, and started most of the present season for the Bruins until he suffered a sprained ankle against Princeton. If the ankle hasn't continued to heal, Mike Reilly, a husky 200-pound junior, will take over the starting assignment...
...rugged juniors are slated as guard starters: Jim Smith, a 190-pounder, and Bill Harris, a 195-pound performer. Kelley considers both good prospects...