Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorndike's methods are dramatic, depend considerably on his ingenuity in designing tests. To determine the effect of adults' prejudices on their attitudes, he asked them how much money they would demand to eat a quarter of a pound of human flesh. To prove that heredity was more important than environment, he tested 50 twins, demonstrated that they were less affected by differences in training than ordinary brothers and sisters...
...taken ill. Said his doctors: "It is a ticklish point and strictly a matter of opinion whether it is pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton cracked: "That deer's been photographed so much it's got Kleig eyes...
...walkaway," has strengthened his squad with hard-working material from last year's Yardling team. Veterans on the Varsity are Harvey Ross '39, shifty lightweight, Dick Lindenfelser '38, Bill Gosline '38, and Harry Kidder '38, who has advanced from the substitute aggregation to earn a place in the 175-pound division...
Lacey, a powerful Freshman 175-pounder who was Exeter's chief threat last year, will top the Yardling matmen. VARSITY FRESHMAN Ross 118-pound Freed Dally 126-pound Schoenberg Richter 135-pound Murray Lindenfelser 145-pound Richardson, W. Gosline 155-pound Richardson, E. Daughaday 165-pound Barnes, B. Kidder 175-pound Lacey Boston unlimited Eliot
Sophomore personnel in the shot put have greatly strengthened this event. George Downing, back from football, is juggling with the 16 pound shot again, and Nat Heard and Howard Mendel have been throwing up to 44 feet all fall...