Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Food rations were down to a quarter of a pound per person and machine guns were spattering the St. Petersburg streets with dead when a family of five Russian Jews who lived in one small room across from the central police station scrambled a few belongings together and hastily escaped from Russia. There were 16 refugees crowded into the third-class compartment which carried them across Siberia. And when they reached San Francisco via Japan and Honolulu nothing seemed so strange as the way U. S. residents spread themselves out, unless it was the way they ate soup...
...month's end. But they are not altogether happy about the springtime sideshow they are providing for Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April...
Today will be a busy one for Harvard's crews. The Harvard Varsity 150-pound crew, the second and third Freshman and the Freshman 150-pound crew will race this afternoon over the Henley course in the Charles River Hasin...
...Committee has also approved the appointment of Philip W. A. Hines, Jr. '34 as assistant Varsity boxing coach next season and of Thomas J. Curtin '34 as assistant Freshman boxing coach. Both Hines and Curtin were members of the Varsity boxing team last winter. Hines boxing in the 155-pound class and Curtin in the 115-pound class. Hines is on the baseball team this spring...
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School will also speak at the luncheon with Professor de Haas. President Connate will speak at 8 o'clock as the third speaker of the convention...