Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hudepohl was widely feared for his crunching defensive play at right end. The 6 ft., 3 in., 200 pound senior from Fort Thomas, Ky. consistently turned back end sweeps and often broke through to smother would-be passers...
...pound junior, Southmayd was hampered early in the year by a hand injury and later by a bad knee. But in the last several games he was back at his old stand at right guard...
Before the end of the month scientists at Cape Canaveral will launch an Aerobee rocket carrying a forty pound box that belongs to Harvard University. If its equipment functions successfully the University's intensive participation in the national satellite program will be assured...
...good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half, but equals one-twentieth of an ounce. Both ounces and quarts have entirely different values in different tables, and pounds can consist either of 12 oz. (troy) or 16 oz. (avoirdupois), not to mention the pound sterling, which is 20 shillings...
...present imperial gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform to international standards, and in five years it will also abolish pennyweight, scruple and drachm...