Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparation for the Ames Competition finals to be held in the Law School, on January 25, three judges, coming from various parts of the continent, have been chosen to preside. Upon their acceptance, Dean Pound remarked that a finer bench for the trial could not be found...
...present volume consists in the first part of essays on mediaeval religion, originally presented at the Forwood Lectures for 1934 at the University of Liverpool; the second part is "The Origins of the Romantic Tradition," which first appeared in the "Criterion"--like Mr. Ezra Pound, Mr. Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with...
...Rambled through a free-for-all monetary debate in which the Government was besought by M. P.'s of various factions to attempt pound-dollar stabilization. Replied the Empire's beak-nosed budget balancer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain: "[We] must wait until there is such a change of price levels as may bring the dollar and the franc into greater harmony with one another, which I understand is the policy of the United States to bring about and to which I, for one, wish all possible success...
...trying to force the franc into devaluation, caused U. S. Treasury officials to smirk that uncertainty as to the future of the franc appears to exist. From Paris French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin crisply volleyed the issue back by declaring that the franc would stand its ground until the pound and dollar got together...
...pound class: Shea (H) defeated Robert Thorson (MIT) by decision...