Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's Phil Burnaman lost a close one to Koster, 3 to 2. Dick Hook defeated Howard of Williams, 8 to 0, for the 157 pound class victory. Bob Gilmor the varsity's 167 pounder, pinned Sullivan in 7:27 minutes. Captain Ken Culbert pinned Baumgardner of Williams with a reverse cradle in two minutes. In the unlimited class Pete Morrison of Harvard pinned Reed in 2:30 with a half-nelson and a crotch held...
...varsity in the 123 pound class Tatsuo Arima won the decision over Lyden of William, 8 to 0. In the 130 pound class Williams Pitts defeated Ed Keating, 10 to 5. In the 187 pound match Dave Jordan of Harvard and Masden of Williams came to a draw...
...freshmen lost only one match of the meet. Elsas of the freshman 123 pound class overcame Even, 9 to 8. The freshmen's Kuliman whipped McCellenam 5 go 0 In the 130 pound class. Mooz the freshmen's 137 pounder, defeated Hutchenson 5 to 1. Marbury walked over Gladsen for a score of 11 to 0 in the 147 class...
...imports from North America, are quietly dismantling their restrictions on free trade. In some cases (e.g., Benelux) controls have been removed on almost 90% of all dollar imports. The vast sterling area, which accounts for 40% of all world trade, is slowly and cautiously approaching the day when the pound (and with it, most other currencies) will be declared freely convertible into dollars...
Judgment & Pride. The matter of style reminds Hemingway of many things, including his Nobel Prize. He knows just what he would like to say if he went to Stockholm for the acceptance ceremony. He would like to talk about a half-forgotten poet and great stylis-Ezra Pound. Poet Pound used to look over Hemingway's early manuscripts in Paris and returned them, mercilessly blue-penciled, the adjectives gone. Indicted for treason for his pro-Fascist broadcasts in Italy during World War II, Pound was declared "mentally incompetent" in 1946 and is now in Washington's St. Elizabeth...