Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world possible?" So asked Roscoe Pound, 87, dean from 1916 to 1936 of Harvard Law School and still a dean among U.S. legal scholars, at a Brooklyn Bar Association meeting last week. His answer: not only is a law of the world possible, but it will probably precede any sort of sense-making world state. Tossing aside his 7,000-word manuscript, Dean Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control...
...Jack Russell, 250-pound president of the Cleveland City Council and one of America's last--and most competent--political ward bosses, came to Harvard this week to teach "the kids" a few lessons in practical politics and, incidentally, to have his picture taken in a mortarboard, standing next to the Harvard drum. But the drum had already gone to New Haven...
Fats Domino, a chubby torpedo with the hands of a rake and the voice of a raspy chain saw, deposited his 300-pound frame at the piano and began to play. They turned on the house-lights. Fats, in a red silk toga, had been known to inspire hysteria...
...general, the thing to be, on the subject of art-or on any subject, for that matter-is casual. "Anything that is in any way heroic or looks heroic," says Philosophy Major Peter Gunter of the University of Texas, "thumbs down. Don't ever stand up and pound your fist about anything, because that is sort of childish...
Still, Brown must be considered a fairly formidable opponent, for it possesses in junior Frank Finney the league's "best quarterback" (on the testimony of John Yovicsin), and also a 230-pound tackle named Gil Robertshaw, who was rated all-Ivy League last year...