Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deadly earnest work ever written about undergraduate life. This is Not To Eat, Not For Love, by George Anthony Weller '32. Weller attempts a serious treatment of the problems and complexities that beset an undergraduate mind, but his attempt to achieve a style somewhere between Joyce, Proust, and Ezra Pound is so obvious and consequently distracting that any perceptive statement is distressingly blunted. Weller also portrays his psychologically disturbed hero, Epes Todd, with such embarrassing earnestness and intensity that it is impossible for a reader to associate himself with Todd to the extent that Weller demands. For example, Epes Todd...
...Henry found work in a meat factory in Lowell, and Elsie worked in Red Cross hospitals. "We were very happy and proud to be in America," Elsie explains, "the people were so nice, and at least you could go to bed at night and the police didn't pound on the door...
...pound Crimson player, now in the infirmary recovering from a case of flu, did not know whether he would be considered big enough to play professional ball, since many of the players weigh much more than 200 pounds. He said the clubs might pick him as offensive guard or defensive linebacker...
...buys the potatoes for the University's thousands can afford to order in hundreds of pounds. The man is William A. Heaman, supervisor of the Dining Hall Department, and his hundred-pound orders go out weekly from his office at 399 Harvard Street. Heaman buys his potatoes through a yearly contract with the F. J. Ward Company, but for all other commodities on the University menus, weekly contracts are let to wholesalers...
There is also a good deal of other assorted information, some fascinating, some obvious. Cowboys sometimes found it difficult to get about 3,000 cows to swim a river. Steak was cheap (5? a pound). The Colt six-gun was invented by Samuel Colt. Bullwhackers had deplorable vocabularies. All this may be interesting. But a thought, as troublesome as Geronimo, persists in the reader's mind that the cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider...