Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which will end next Jan. 1, leaving British industries and businesses with about $280 million more of their profits than they may now keep. ¶ Cut across the board: British income taxes. The cut for Britain's 16 million income-tax payers was a flat sixpence per pound. That, for example, brought the "standard tax rate" down to $1.26 for each $2.80 of income...
ARNOLD BENNETT (385 pp.)-Reginald Pound-Harcourt, Brace...
...such contemporaries as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook, Bernard Shaw. During his lifetime, his love of good clothes and good living gave Bennett a reputation as a fop, a popular caricature which the publication of his Journal in 1932-33 did little to change. Biographer Pound now takes a look behind the dandyism, the snobbishness and the preoccupation with money, and finds them the defenses of a suddenly successful man from the pottery towns of Staffordshire against a world he never quite made terms with...
...there was nothing funny about it, according to Lampoon treasurer John Geetlet, of Newport, R.I., who retrieved the magazine's mascot, a 20-pound copper ibis, from the Russian Embassy in Manhattan this morning...
...Crimson crews open their 1953 seasons on the Charles today. Varsity, JV, and freshman heavies, and their 150-pound counterparts, are all racing for the first time this year...