Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound Varsity race both M.I.T. and Columbia will oppose the Crimson, while the Freshman 150's challenge only M.I.T...
Hard feeling arose in the March 7 match in the 145-pound bout between Dwight W. Ellis, Jr. '38 and Loomis of Yale when the fight was given to Yale on the basis of the total points scored by the judges. One referee called it a draw; however, due to the interpretation placed upon the rules by those in charge of the meet at New Haven, the match was given to Yale...
...pound class between Peter B. Olney '37 and the Yale Captain, Huffman, the judges were again split. The referee voted for Harvard. Again the bout went to Yale on the basis of the total points scored by each judge...
...ready to release the bad news: The huge cost of Britain's rearmament program (some $1,500,000,000 plus) had swallowed up not only the expected treasury surplus but made it necessary to impose additional taxes. The basic income tax rate was being raised threepence in the pound: for every $5 a Briton receives, he must pay $1.18 instead of $1.13 in income tax. His daily cup of tea will be taxed another fourpence per pound. Imported beer will have to pay an additional pound per barrel...
...This was small comfort to the average Briton. With his Government launched on an enormous and costly campaign of national defense, he could see no likelihood of military expenses declining in the next year or two, every chance that taxes would soon mount to five shillings in the pound. Wailed Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, coal & iron tycoon: "The British Taxpayer is back in Bleak House...