Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Field events in the annual House track meet will be held this afternoon, beginning at 2:30 o'clock with the 12-pound hammer throw and the discus throw. At 2 o'clock the javelin and high jump will begin, at 8:30 o'clock the 12-pound shot and the pole vault, and at 4 o'clock the broad jump...
...Pound is extremely concerned over the current confusion in terms which, he says, afflicts economics especially. He would have eight or ten terms exactly defined and understood by people, such words as Money, Credit, Property, Capital, Usury...
...stamp scrip" of the economist Gesell is the money plan which Pound advocates. This would mean a monthly stamp of 1 per cent on the value of the scrip issued by the government, and would do away with taxes and replace them with "taxed money, based on national production," he said...
...Pound is a little discouraged about the chances of spreading his ideas in this country for he thinks the press contains "a deluge of lies." He concluded that "its mendacity is not as efficient here as it is in England, but the confusion is worse...
Last week eight men who form a congenial group the 150 pound crew obliterated all vague comments about their organization, such as "fine looking crew," "smooth oarsmen", and "well coordinated boat" by bringing home the bacon in the figure of the Goldthwalt Cup, the symbol of their precedence over two other principal lightweight crews of the East. Yale and Princeton. The conquest was expected by many but few had dared to voice their opinions...