Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...washer and a dryer for one nine pound load will cost a student 50 cents. After each day of use, the machines must be delinted and the room cleaned. The members of the committee have decided to split these chores between them to avoid hiring and paying...
...badly-depleted rugger squad goes to Montreal this weekend for a return match tomorrow afternoon with the West mount Rugby Club. George Sella, "Red" V. ylie, and 230 pound Jeff Power will all be unable to play, and the team's back-line and forward pack will be drastically weakened...
Bert Haines 150 pound crew coach will start and referee the race and Carroll F. Getchell will be the head finish judge. The weather and wind will determine whether the race will be upstream or downstream...
Henceforth Britons must pay a shilling (14?) for prescriptions and up to a pound ($2.80) for each trip to the dentist. But, Miss Hornsby-Smith insisted, many of the new changes are not as unreasonable as Labor alleged. For instance, said she, the new ?3 charge for orthopedic shoes (actual cost, ?9) is what most Britons pay for ordinary shoes, and those who must now pay $7 for a wig will not have to pay over the months for haircuts. As for charging $2.80 for abdominal belts, "so far as women are concerned, this belt frequently takes the place...
...editor of the London Times: ". . . We sell capital and it is treated as income. The work of three years is taxed in one. We have a sudden success, after lean years, and soar into the regions where we are allowed to keep only a few shillings in every pound. Such a success cannot often be repeated . . . It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up in the tax race. If something is not done for us soon, we may no longer be disposed to try . . . The only work that gives me any real hope now is my weekly toil...