Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the German planes came over in waves, blasting the houses from their foundations with heavy bombs, loosing showers of glittering two-pound aluminum incendiary bombs to turn the "Holy City" to a furnace. Skimming the roof tops, fighting planes followed with all machine guns popping, harrying terrified peasants through the fields, sending them sprawling in their own blood. Over 800 men, women and children were killed. The munitions factory and barracks, untouched, were later seized by advancing Rightist infantry...
...didn't starve them," wept Mrs. Whittle. "They got a pound of meat a day. They are old, that's all. Just old and sick. I could nurse them back to health...
...closest race of the day, as had been generally expected, came in the Lightweight event, where Bert Haines' boat still more firmly established itself with the best 150 pound crews in the country by defeating Tech and Columbia...
...pound race will be over the Henley Course (one mile and five-six-teenths), finishing near the Cambridge bank between the Tech Sailing Pavilion and the subway bridge. Best place to watch this race: follow in car along Cambridge shore, or standing on bank near finish...
Like last week, the weakest link in the Harvard chain comes in the 150 pound class, where Bert Haines' first crew tackles a Tech boat it edged last week, a Columbia boat that beat Yale at the same time in New York...