Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first meeting of this year's fall crew candidates last night at Newell Boathouse, varsity crew coach Harvey Love announced to 80-odd hopefuls that former oarsman Ted Reynolds would be the temporary 150-pound coach for the fall season...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science, in Belfast, was greeted at its 114th session by its previous president, the Duke of Edinburgh. Theme of the conference: "Of what use is science if man does not survive?" Discussion ranged from the number of mouse hairs contained in a pound of flour (there may be as many as 180), to a time-motion study of the Royal Navy (only 15% of British tars shave before noon), to problems of parthenogenesis among humans (verdict: unisexual reproduction, common in insects, is unlikely to be achieved by women, but it would cause a dickens...
...otherwise peaceful afternoon of August 10, 1952, a very large gap suddently appeared in the vicinity of New Haven, Connecticut. This gap was caused by the sudden departure of 300-pound Herman Hickman, former Yale football coach, currently head smoker on the United Cigar Co. Television team...
...gold equivalent of the pound sterling, not minted for circulation since...
...some nations, says the report, the high price results from "inordinately high taxes"; Turkey, for example, slapped a 16? tax on every pound in 1949, pushing the price up to 27?. Elsewhere, the price is kept artificially high by "government monopolies or government-approved cartels." Sugarmen should "estimate the great cost of restricting production as against the infinitesimal cost of taking some positive, dynamic steps to increase consumption...