Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base of a "food pyramid." They are eaten by slightly bigger zooplahkton, and these small grazers are processed in the stomachs of bigger and bigger carhivora. The food in the original plants diminishes by nine-tenths at each eating. So when a human fisherman catches a fine codfish, each pound of its flesh represents about 100,000 lbs. of plants that grew in the sea. This process is wasteful, thinks Dr. Weiss. Man would do better to harvest the lower, broader stages of the food pyramid...
...labor, at an average $16 a day. In North Africa and South America, mine labor gets $1.50 to $2 a day; in Mexico, from 85? to $4. With such an advantage, foreign producers have little trouble leaping the modest U.S. tariff wall of less than a penny a pound...
...starting guards are Captain Gene Wodeshick, who is playing his second year of "two-way" ball, and husky Ben Hoffman, an ex-Marine. The lightest line starter is 175-pound center Jerry Hampton...
...Cohn simply dosed himself with palliative drugs and kept on working. His first great success so far as medicine was concerned came in 1927 when he extracted from liver the substance that controls pernicious anemia. It meant that patients could take medicine, instead of having to eat a pound or more of liver every...
Margarita's array of all-conference backs will not include former Boston College High all-around athlete Bill Donlan, who was listed to start at quarterback today. Donlan is now at Holy Cross. In his place the freshman coach will have 180 pound Bob Hastings an all-conference back from Austin, Minn...