Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liles, who won the broadjump, placed second in the 300, and tied for second in the pole vault. Other Yardling winners were Art Cahn in the 1000, Art Hoyt in the 600, Doc Bennett in the pole vault, Jeff Paley in the shot and Dunc Johnson in the 35 pound weight...
...thousands of people who milled through Mechanics Building last week at the Boat and Outdoor Show saw what some say was the biggest collection of new boats on the eastern sea-board and were enlightened in the arts of the misery whip and the six pound double-bitted axe. They watched a guide cook dinner over a light bulb, and a monkey row a boat. They proved, certainly, that private boating is well on the way to becoming the nation's biggest effort, and that the people are numerous who see money with their dreams...
...newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Peter Thorneycroft is responsible for every pound, shilling and penny in Her Majesty's treasury. His butler is not, and it is just as well. For last week Thorneycroft's butler admitted that only six years ago he had taken a hand in stealing some $150,000 worth of jewels from a previous employer, the Duke of Sutherland. And furthermore, he added loyally, Thorneycroft already knew about...
Into Boston's Gardner Auditorium last week marched an oddly assorted procession of scientists, politicians and dogs. The occasion: a legislative committee hearing on a bill to make stray animals, unclaimed after 20 days in the pound, available to medical-research laboratories. For Massachusetts, though boasting in the Boston area one of the nation's most productive medical-research centers, is bound by a law which requires that stray animals be gassed. As a result, medical researchers are forced to buy animals which may be stolen pets, or to import them from other states, at considerable cost...
...pound class, on the other hand, appears one of the weakest, as neither Tom Bertone nor Dick Steinzig, both natural 130-pounders, has much experience. Bertone in particular shows a great deal of natural ability, which could be developed before too long...