Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the 150-pound squad meets Dartmouth and MIT here Saturday, the first heavy boat will race against MIT, Boston University, and Syracuse in the Charles River Regatta...
...varsity boat are John Powell, cox; Tom Sheffield, bow; George Krumbhaar, 2; Bill Alcorn, 3; Harry Chase, 4; Gunther Fritze, 5; Lowell McElroy, 6; captain Dick Timson, 7; and Mark Hoffman, stroke. Hoffman, stroke of last year's heavy freshman crew, has changed to the 150-pound crews...
...freeing of Archbishop Makarios (TIME, April 8). Tory M.P.s were muttering about the "intense humiliation" Macmillan had brought on the country in Bermuda by making Britain dependent on U.S. guided missiles-minus their nuclear warheads. Within Britain itself 1,700,000 workers were still out on strike, and the pound sterling was fluttering...
...criticized Dr. Oppenheimer on the grounds that he was an example of irresponsibility on the part of a prominent intellectual, and that his appointment as William James lecturer could only champion those groups which excuse and abet this kind of irresponsibility. The Pound controversy and Kamin-Furry fiasco are excellent illustrations of this. I do not in any way deny Dr. Oppenheimer's right to speak. I criticize his appointment as William James lecturer...
...present program, undertaken in 1950 under the pressure of Korean conflict, as ill-adapted to the present need for long-range planning. Prime Minister Macmillan argues, further, that an economically burdened England could never be the defensive force the free world expects; hence he asserts "more punch for the pound" through powerful deterrents is the British answer to economic and military pressures...