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Word: pound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thad McNulty placed fifth for the Crimson with a 4:10.4 finish in the mile, and Ed Ajootian pulled through on Saturday with another fifth-place showing with a 60-ft., 5 1/4-in. heave in the 35-pound weight throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Finishes 7th In IC4A Track Meet | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...thing is the report was kept carefully under wraps before it was released," Robert V. Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, said yesterday. "The opposition had no chance to organize since we did not know what was going...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Welcome to High School | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...Callaghan has plenty to fight back with. Last week the Prime Minister reaped a substantial political bonanza with some favorable economic news. Britain's mine workers agreed to go along with the government's 10% limit on wage increases; the pound, already surging, rose another half a cent; and key Labor economists projected a drop in the inflation rate (13% in November) to 7% by July. One pollster believes that the party may also pick up a large block of new votes in the next election from the traditionally apolitical Asian immigrants. His prediction: "They are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Mrs. Thatcher's Bold Gamble | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...uninitiated, a gnome stands a half-foot high, and weighs two-thirds of a pound. He is a nocturnal person who wears a long, pointed cap on his head at all times. Gnomes mostly inhabit Europe, Siberia, and North America, and a few have even been sighted in the Harvard College Government Department. They are most assuredly not to be confused with trolls, dwarves, elves, goblins, gremlins or wood nymphs...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: To Gnome is to Love 'Em | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...Pound Ridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1978 | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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