Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose is to create public opinion, to recruit crusaders to preach our humane gospel, to oppose legislation such as this recent pound bill in Massachusetts. In-fighting and politicking...
...thing last night. Fred L. Whipple was more than usually restrained as he commented at the Garden St. headquarters of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory that the second Russian launching probably required no greater effort than the first. Whipple speculated, as have most other American scientists, that the 1,120-pound object speeding around the earth is the third-stage of the rocket rather than a spherical satellite...
...down inflation is Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS), whose cost-of-living index rose only 6% since 1953, while production increased 60%. With far fewer economic strains to contend with, Switzerland has held to a 5% rise. Britain has had a 16% rise in that time, now hopes its "hard pound" policy, expressed in courageously raising the discount rate from 5% to 7%, will finally check inflation, permit Britain to build up the gold and dollar reserves it needs to act as banker for the sterling area. In Asia, Japan has creditably held its inflation since 1953 to 9%, and recently...
...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...
Dartmouth's line opened holes for the backs, and the backs, running off quick openers, found them every time. Indeed, the Indians' forward unit, led by Captain Joe Palermo, was perhaps the decisive factor in the game, as only the Crimson's 220 pound tackles, Pete Briggs and Bob Shaunessy, could measure up to, and often surpass, Dartmouth's caliber of play...