Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry was fizzing when Harriet Monroe of Chicago started Poetry magazine in 1912. By opening her pages to some of the best young fizzers, she got some "firsts" to be proud of: T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, Carl Sandburg's Chicago, early verse by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...Bears opened the season by walloping the Missouri School of Mines, 27 to 6, and last Saturday edged Wayne University of Detroit, 13 to 12. The win over Wayne proved as costly as it was lucky, because Utz's most powerful halfback, 198-pound Norb Mueller, received an elbow injury that will sideline him for the season...
...giant at 150 pounds, does all the punting; and just to make things tough for the press-box, a third brother, 132-pound Bob, will play Mueller's half-back Saturday. Spell Utz with a capital "G". To blunt charges of nepotism, the coach will start big Bob Winkler at full-back, bad ankle...
...Their 132-pound halfback is supposed to be pretty good," Johnston said...
Unfortunately the future of Metasequoia is still in doubt. The original source of this possible timber crop is limited to only 800 square miles. Roscoe Pound, former Dean of the Law School helped organize a group to preserve the Metasequoia valley as a National Park. "Maybe the Metasequoias will survive better under the new Chinese regime," Merrill commented hopefully, "the Nationalists were cutting them heavily...