Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats. Robert Graves-is an honor roll of contemporary letters...
...theme is tiny, but so industriously does she magnify it that every character is touched by it, obsessed by it. The setting is New Moon Yard, an old tinderbox of a tenement in London. Some of the characters, mostly tenants of the Yard: a happy old Italian who hoards pound notes against a return to Palermo, scorns wasting two or three of them on fire insurance; an ex-Captain who lost all his nerve under fire, all his possessions in a fire; a cabinetmaker, who keeps forgetting to mail a letter to an insurance company taking out a fire policy...
With coffee selling at $1.20 a pound and only two ounces available per customer, the Propaganda Ministry attributed the coffee famine to "various interruptions in German-Brazilian trade, caused by pressure from the U. S." Brazil has occasionally broken off her barter dealings with Germany, but they are not broken now. Real causes for the German shortage are three: 1) determination of the Nazis to import more war materials, less foodstuffs; 2) extensive additional needs of coffee-addicted Austria; 3) a Nazi practice of selling imported Brazilian coffee to Central Europe to bring in much-needed foreign currencies...
...horse cart rattled from the murky London docks to Mincing Lane with eight deodar chests containing 350 Ibs. of tea. This was the first consignment of tea grown in the British Empire and Auctioneer William J. Thomson knocked it down at a record price of 25 shillings a pound to a patriotic Captain Pidding...
Chief Boston saved the record in his second overtime with a bare decision over the opponent's heavyweight in the day's closest match. Bill Daughaday's win in the 165 pound class stood out in the Varsity bout, especially as it was his second fall in two weeks. Outstanding Freshman match was Dick Thomas's in the 145 pound class, with a fall in under two minutes...