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Word: pound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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George A. Skokan '58, who finished third in the 198-pound class, was the outstanding performer for Harvard. His total lift was 435 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weightlifting Society Competes at M.I.T. | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...E.A.R.C. also voted to hold the 150-pound regatta on the Charles River, on May 14. Last year the lightweights raced on Lake Carnegie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Sports Added to Ivy League Play | 12/8/1954 | See Source »

CARE has offered to act as FOA's agent in distributing two and a half million 14 pound packages by next January 21. The government will supply and package food from its surplus; CARE will merely deliver it with funds gathered through fifty-cent and dollar contributions from citizens. For every dollar given here some needy family abroad will receive enough food to sustain it for a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifty Cents of CARE | 12/7/1954 | See Source »

...that score, moviegoers of all sorts and ages have the right to an honest gripe: movies about India might do well to be more faithful to history. The truth about the British raj* might make hearts pound -and turnstiles whir-far faster than they do at the conventional buncombe under the banyans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...around Princeton and New Brunswick, N.J.--where big-time, heavyweight competition began in 1869 and organized lightweight football held its first championship in 1934--the game rated banner headlines. For local 150-pound enthusiasts, it was a repeat of the first championship between these two elevens. That year Rutgers played to the crown before 10,000, defeating Princeton, and carrying off honors in the newly-organized 150-pound football league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Little Shavers of 150 Football | 11/24/1954 | See Source »

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