Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Derrick Wilde's strong 150-pound Crimson varsity rates an excellent chance to defeat M.I.T. in a two-boat race at 6 p.m. The lightweight oarsmen covered the Henley distance of one mile and five-sixteenths in six minutes and 48 seconds...
However, the drop in experienced men is partly compensated for by an increased interest in the 150-pound ranks due to the addition of a third boat in this category. In the past there have been only two 150 shells...
...beginning, however, the going seems a little rough, mainly because the play is not very funny. Throughout the first half of the comedy, most of the humor is at the expense of the Jew, Shylock, whom the poet conceived as a grasping, vengeful figure intent on exacting his pound of flesh from the Merchant. But director Richard Smithies has wisely chosen not to make Shylock the butt of all the jokes, even though he succeeds only partially in finding funny material elsewhere in the play...
Weightman Pete Harpel turned in the finest performance for the Crimson, placing fourth among a star-studded 16-pound hammer field. American record-holder Harold Connolly unleashed a toss of 201 feet, 1 inch to lead a field which included former record-holder Bob Backus and Stew Thompson, ex-Yale star...
...Pound for pound, the Imperial used less gas than any of the other 20 cars, averaging 61.37 ton miles per gallon (computed by multiplying the car's weight by mileage, dividing by gas consumed), 10 miles more than the runner-up, a Pontiac Chieftain Catalina (51.72 ton miles per gallon), and 13 miles more than the average 48.65 t.m.p.g. It was also well ahead of the others in the High Price Class-the Packard 400, which did 50.32 t.m.p.g., and the Buick Roadmaster Riviera, which averaged 48.25 t.m.p.g. But in straight mileage, regardless of weight, a Nash Rambler...