Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the opening of a new year, a subject that merits far more attention than has been given it, is Dean Pound's recommendation that the law school course be lengthened from three to four years, and, concurrently, that the last year in college and the first year in law school be combined...
...Dean Pound's recommendation is sound and progressive, fully in tune with the changing times. The faculties of the college and the law school should give the plan the most serious consideration, for, once concluded, it cannot fail to hasten the trend towards a closer integration of the last years in school and the first years in college...
Technically, a machine tool is a power-driven, non-portable instrument that removes metal in the form of chips. One of the indices of machine tool efficiency is the amount of metal chipped per minute. Up to 1900, with old-fashioned carbon steel tools, about one-quarter of a pound of metal could be cut in 60 seconds. Today, using tools tipped with cemented carbides, the chips fall at the rate of 17 lb. per minute. Carbides are crystalline substances so hard that they will machine glass...
Automatically, of course, many of the best of the dismally few great American poems have been included but a little more effort in trying to select only those would make the volume more interesting. We miss Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, and Stephen Vincent Benet among the modern group and individual selections such as some of Emily Dickinson's "Life" beside the few cantos included here, Sidney Lanier's "The Marshes of Glynn", and Millay's "Wild Swans". To make room for these some of the emphasis could have been removed from Bryant and Longfellow and the volume would have been...
...suggest that the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and each member of Congress should be required to carry a pound of shingle nails in his pocket for 30 days before acting on this bill...