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Word: pounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most brilliant law students ever graduated from the Law School received his degree in 1924, and was immediately taken to Washington as secretary to Justice Brandeis. Both Landis and Goodrich are registered as members of the Democratic party. It is thought extremely likely that President Conant will announce Pound's successor before the college year closes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodrich, Penn Law Dean, and Landis of S.E.C. Possible Successors to Pound | 4/18/1936 | See Source »

Memorial Hall's perambulating bell clapper was out on the make again yesterday morning, but Colonel Apted '08, maintaining an admirable calm, showed that he had taken to heart his earlier Boy Scout training, and was prepared with a new, twenty pound ringer, from his private collection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOLEN BELL CLAPPER FAILS TO DISTURB BORED OFFICIALS | 4/15/1936 | See Source »

Second day of the trail the name of "Ella," which had been written on the wrapper of a pound of purloined butter, roused the court from its drowsiness. Captain Fleischer, a bachelor, explained that "Ella" was only a "trademark on Army butter." Two days later Mess Sergeant John Maresca rebutted this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Icebox Raider | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...part to a new depreciation policy changing all planes from a three-year to a four-year life basis. The fact that United still shows a loss is due, according to President William A. Patterson, to the inadequacy of its airmail subsidy rate, which was 12% less per pound-mile in 1935 than in 1934 and only about half what other domestic airlines received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Encouraged United | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...bought a pair of shoes for 16 shillings, giving a one-pound note. The shoemaker got change from a butcher, gave the customer the shoes and four shillings change. Finding the note was counterfeit, the butcher forced the shoemaker to give him a genuine note. How much did the shoemaker lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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