Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...14th day the dog snapped a fly, ate its usual half-pound of liver, milk, eggs, oatmeal gruel. On the 15th Dr. Cornish said it was semiconscious, "like a thoroughly intoxicated man." That night someone left the laboratory door open and on the 16th and 17th days the dog snuffled with a head cold...
Rowing a fairly fast time for rough water the Browne and Nichols crew defeated the first Freshman 150-pound crew by three lengths in the race Saturday afternoon over the regulation Henley course. The Black and White crew was a half length ahead after the first half-mile when the 150 crow's No. 7 man caught a minor crab and although he recovered from it the strain later caused the rigger to break, making the car utterly useless. The time for the winning boat was seven minutes and seventeen seconds for the mile and five-sixteenths...
...Britain's famed automobile licensing fees of a pound a horsepower will be reduced 25%, thus aiding the manufacture of more powerful cars...
While elimination races in the University Spring Handicap meet were being held under yesterday's threatening skies, two field event men, Johnny Dean and Jo Fobes captured the shot put and javelin titles. Dean tossed the 16-pound shot 46 feet 5 1-4 inches, two feet further than Jack Healey and Mac Millard. Fobes' victory in the javelin came as a result of his handicap over Howard Harrington who heaved it 190 feet...
ONCE A WILDERNESS - Arthur Pound - Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A Michigan patriarch wields benevolent despotism over his broad acres. A comfortable ''realistic'' romance of U. S. farming before horsepower became invisible...