Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent experiment by Dr. George Alexander Gray of San Jose, feeding apricots, peaches, and prunes to 146 anemic patients, showed that there was a definite, efficient, and economical return of the hemoglobin and erythrocyte count to normal upon the ingestion of one-half a pound of dried fruit per day over a period of from eight to 16 weeks...
Switzerland. A spectacular promotion stunt by Swiss hotelkeepers backfired last week, sending the Swiss franc down below its gold point for the first time in months. To attract British winter sportsmen, the stunting bonifaces advertised that in settlement of Swiss hotel bills the pound sterling will be accepted as worth 16 Swiss francs flat. Last week the pound was worth 15.31 Swiss francs on international exchange. In effect the Swiss hotelkeepers had merely cut their rates. But Paris seethed with angry talk: "The Swiss, like the Germans, are creating an unfair cut-rate currency. What is the difference between...
...connected with a government that had destroyed in Germany fundamental principles of universities. That these grounds do not correspond to the view of the Harvard Faculty one could conclude as a matter of course simply from the fact that the present Dean of Harvard's renowned Law Faculty, Roscoe Pound, accepted two months ago an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin. Besides, it should be recalled that last July, on the 220th anniversary of the death of the composer Gluck, the Music Faculty at Harvard accepted, in regular session, a bust of Gluck from Dr. Hanfstaengl...
...Holmes disclosed that there is in the Music Building, a fine Bull Fiddle, equipped with a bow, a book of instructions and a half-pound of resin, awaiting any musician who wishes to tackle the problem. He also said that the beat please of any student compoaer will be played at a concert in Paine Hall later in the year...
Henry S. Parker '35 was elected captain yesterday of the 150-pound football team, which will play its only game of the season against the Tigers at Princeton. Parker prepared at Milton Academy and has played football for the last three years...