Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strong Junior and Sophomore material bolster Johnson's hopes. Bill Daughaday who held down the 165-pound berth in the 1938 season reported yesterday along with Captain Harvey Ross and Louis Ach, both of whom have seen Varsity competition for two years in the 118-1b and 126-lb. positions, respectively...
...FIVE DOLLARS, the present exchange and LUCY Baldwin being what they are, is the equivalent of ONE POUND, more or less...
...sports comment before Roy Howard brought him to the New York World-Telegram in 1933 and made the universe his beat. Pegler is a laborious writer; his brisk, integrated sentences are the result of patient rewriting. Most of his turbulent columns are composed in the seclusion of his Pound Ridge, N. Y. estate, near the haunts of the Nutmeg intelligentsia whom he includes among the "Doubledome Babbitts...
...military training, children begin long marches at the age of 10. and 15-year-olds are expected to march 13∧ miles a day with an eleven-pound load. Result: an abnormal increase in the prevalence of fiat feet, a trait Nazis attribute to non-Aryans. Of youths conscripted in 1936. some 38% were found unfit for military service for this reason...
...Egyptian exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, refused to discuss "anything less than 2,000 years old." At a stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate for U. S. Senator, auctioned off a calf for 14½? a pound instead of the previous top of 9?. Cracked Candidate Taft: "It just shows what I can do with the farm problem if given half a chance...