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Word: pounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Sept. 6 issue I have read the account of the award of the top prizes in the recent Old Gold contest. Is it not true that William R. Staggs, winner of the first prize of $100,000, had to split this prize with his contest partner, Addison Pound Jr., of Gainesville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Cadet Naval Aviator Staggs split his prize not two ways but five ways. He, Pound, J. D. Lamade, Joe Jaaps and W. S. Pye, all Navy men, had agreed that if any of them won the $100,000 he would share it with the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Forger or not, old Thomas Wise had done England more good than harm. His 7,000-volume library, whose catalog alone fills eleven large quartos, was offered to the nation at a price considerably less than its assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Books | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...House residents, while members of Varsity, Second and Third Varsity and 150 Pound sport squads may not represent their respective Houses in these same sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samborski Report Of Last Year On House Athletics | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Among these on the field yesterday that displayed some inkling of their ability was the blond 175-pound Charles Burnett, brother of Bob Burnett on the Varsity. A star at St. Mark's last year, Burnett is a good strong kicker, and an accurate passer. Yesterday his punts were consistently well placed and in the vicinity of fifty yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LARGE TURNOUT AT FIRST 1941 GRID PRACTICE | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

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