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Word: pound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the X-ray process was expensive, Bushland is now experimenting at Oak Ridge with radioactive cobalt, a cheap source of sterilizing radiation. Soon he plans to go south and hatch clouds of flies out of washtubs full of hamburger. One pound of hamburger, he figures, is good for 500 flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sterile Fifth Column | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...agony of patience," he writes. "At the thousandth bate in a day, on an arm that ached to the bone . . . merely to twitch him gently back to the glove . . . to reassure him with tranquillity, when one yearned ... to pound, pash, dismember!" After three days and three nights, the hawk fell asleep. The next day he was as wild as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Against Hawk | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...pound class, Icko Iben lost to Fred Pettit 6 to 7 after leading in the first period. The match was tied in the third period at 4 all, with Iben on the bottom in the referee's position. At the whistle Pettit released him, automatically giving Iben an escape and one point. Pettit felt he would have a better chance in a standing position and would be able to score two points if he could gain "take down." He did this and went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Mat Men Bow to Elis, 16-13 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...pound Schedule: April 19, Columbia M.I.T., and Dartmouth; 26, M.I.T. and Tabor; May 3, Yale and Princeton at Princeton; 10, E.A.R.C. at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bolles Announces 6-Race Schedule For Heavy Crew | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

...65th year of publication, the Review prides itself on such contributors as Holmes, Frankfurter, Pound, and Ames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Review Elections Coming | 3/6/1952 | See Source »

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