Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, but when they are amplified or relayed by a conventional vacuum tube, its filament consumes a full watt. It is the same, says Dr. Ralph Bown, vice president in charge of research at Bell Laboratories, as "sending a twelve-car freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take a bit of blotting paper, chew it for a while, and wrap it moist around a 25? piece. When wires are clipped to this...
...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
...return of Lee, however, is nullified somewhat by the inactivity of 130 pound Bud Adams, a polished wrestler who has won three matches in a row. With Lee taking his customary 123-pound position. Pickett plans to move sophomore Eddle Bursk into Adams' 130-pound post...
Icko Iben, a consistently good performer all season, will work in the 137-pound class, while Larry Wilde will make his second varsity appearance...
Both teams are weak in the heavyweight positions. One notable exception is the Crimson's 157-pound Chick Chandler. Pickett's most outstanding sophomore. Tony Caimi at 167 and Dave Morris at 177 lack experience, but heavyweight George Bates, after a weak start, has improved steadily...