Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking before the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, Johanson, the Latin American editor of the Christian Science Monitor, pointed out that "In Argentina, the best steaks cost 26 cents a pound, while a Chevrolet may cost from ten to twelve thousand dollars. In Venezuela, on the other hand, ham and eggs may cost...
...foot-long, 13-pound nose cone was tracked to a height of 66,654 miles before the force of the earth's gravity whisked it back from its probe of outer space...
...Agitate Until . . ." It is in Nyasaland, the poorest region of all, that the cry is loudest. Though the Nyasas benefit most from the federation (for every pound sterling they pay to the central government, they get back two in subsidies), they look with horror at the example of more prosperous Southern Rhodesia, where a kind of apartheid exists and the blacks are plagued by pass laws. curfews, and even segregated phone booths. Stirring up the Nyasas' restiveness is Dr. Hastings K. Banda, the prosperous physician who returned last summer from a self-imposed exile in London to campaign...
Poet Ezra Pound has made an "unprecedented" move in sending his latest "Canto" to the Yale Literary Magazine, the editors announced yesterday. They are planning an Ezra Pound Issue, and said that this was the first time the poet had contributed directly to a student publication...
...Pound, who was charged with treason during the last war, was not brought to trial because he was found insane. Now 73, he has been living in Italy since his release from a Washington, D.C., mental institution last year...