Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson captain George Doub easily defeated Dan Topkis 9 to 0 in the 130 pound class while Peter Keeler downed Armond Gabrielian 5 to 0 for the varsity's third victory...
Bill Swinford, Harvard's most valuable player this year, was the only lineman chosen on a unanimous vote. The 5-10, 180 pound guard from Oklahoma City was one of the chief reasons for the strength of the Crimson line this year. Other unanimous choices were Haggerty and King...
...with big farms in the sprawling West, but many of them scratched only a bale or two each year out of the harsh red clay of the South, and these could not earn much money. So to help them, the government promised to make its citizens pay 33? a pound for cotton-which was much more than it was worth anywhere else in the world...
...anew: "How can we sell our cotton to the foreigners if the price is so high?" So the government said: "Don't fear-you sell your cotton to those foreigners at the price they are willing to pay, and we will pay you another 8½? for every pound you sell." Well sir, no sooner were the growers of cotton mollified than the makers of cotton cloth and yarn and clothing began to moan. "All those foreigners," they wailed, "are buying our country's cheap cotton and making it into cheap goods and sending them back here...
...that, the President scratched his head-remembering, perhaps, that the makers of cotton cloth were also voters. And so he ordered the wise men of his Tariff Commission to consider whether they should not put a tax of 8½? on each pound of cotton in the cloth that the foreign merchants sold to the President's country. The wise men of the Tariff Commission knew that such a tax would not satisfy the clothmakers of their own country, whose real hope was that the President would tell the foreign merchants straight out that they could sell only...