Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incredible $30,000 per ton v. $780 to $1,020 for stainless steel. But as Wilson's program expands production, nobody doubts that U.S. ingenuity and research will whittle down the cost, just as magnesium's cost has been whittled from $5 in 1915 to 27? a pound in 1953. In that prospect glows the promise of a great new U.S. industry...
...Animal Farm or 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Wittaker Chambers' Witness (probably the greatest autobiography in the world)? Instead they ballyhoo the dull books of the cultural left--Grapes of Wrath, The Little Foxes, Death of a Salesman, or even the destructive barren poetry of Ezra Pound...
...opening football game, little Geneva College, led by a 230-pound guard named Cal Hubbard, slammed out a 16 to 7 victory over a Harvard team which was minus R. W. Turner and J. P. Crosby, both of whom had been inactivated by the language requirement. The number of one's classmates who were on pro would astonish today's undergraduate--950 entered as freshmen, but only 650 would be around to graduate. Coach Horween had a whole-team of ineligible men which he used to scrimmage the varsity...
...perform: to receive the Lord's Supper. The liturgy of the Holy Communion was said as the Archbishop led the Queen to the Communion rail. Kneeling, she removed her Crown and offered the oblation which custom demands of monarchs: "An ingot or wedge of gold, of a pound weight," and "a pall or altar cloth." Philip, her husband, stepped to her side, and while the choir sang the hymn, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, man & wife received the bread and wine. Together, they led the prayer: "Our Father, Which art in Heaven . . ." Thus, freely confessing that "Thine...
Liberation. In San Antonio, an anonymous couple broke into the city pound, chose two stray dogs as pets, set free more than 200 others, fled, evading pursuit...