Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somewhere along in here I began to get excited about magnets, and I remember discovering electric bells and batteries. With my allowance I bought a pound of wire, a battery and a bell--I guess I was fourteen. I made batteries with potassium dichromate dissolved in sulfuric acid. I had a little workshop in the storeroom. Once, to show the batteries, I carried them out on a tray and tripped; I spilled sulfuric acid all over the living room floor...
...giant has never really wavered from President Harper's original aim: grown-up teaching and research. In "schizoid" Midwest fashion, as Orientalist John A. Wilson put it not long ago, Chicagoans "pound on our chests and proclaim fiercely that we are the corn belt or the pivotal center of the country or the home of American nationalism or the 'hog butcher of the world.' Yet secretly we long to out-Harvard Harvard, to out-Oxford Oxford, and to out-Sorbonne the Sorbonne as a citadel of pure intellectuality...
Pitcher Del Rossi, whose 3-0 record in league competition gave the varsity its second straight Greater Boston title, is the only Crimson all-star repeater. The 6 ft. 175-pound junior has been the Crimson's top moundsman for two years and owns a 17-2 pitching record over that time span...
...pound junior has been hampered by a leg injury over the spring season, but remains a mainstay in the distance events. Despite the bad leg, Meehan still managed to run the mile in 4:14 earlier in the season...
Christopher W. Beal '63 of Winthrop House and Winchester; Jeffrey P. Eicholz '63 of Adams House and New York City; Leon I. Jacobson '63 of Quincy House and Belmont; Stephen D. Marcus '63 of Winthrop House and Chicago; Andrew J. Nathan '63 of Lowell House and Pound Ridge, New York; David R. Riggs, Jr. '63 of Claverly and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; Norman E. Thruston '63 of Eliot House and Exeter, N.H.; and Edwin A. Winckler '63 of Dudley House and Ingomar...