Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge traffic in a marathon; and how he kept going between marathons as printer, scoutmaster, schoolteacher, soldier...
...rival of the conservative old Toronto Stock Exchange, which dates back to 1852. With development of the great Ontario mines around Cobalt, Sudbury, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake, the wealth of the North funneled into Toronto. Thus when the greatest mining boom in Canadian history was touched off by the pound's fall from gold and the New Deal's devaluation of the dollar, Toronto was ready-set to cash...
...Infirmary is directly due to the lack of athletic facilities. Another prime mover in the activity is James A. McLaughlin, professor of law, who was mainly responsible for the opening of Hemenway Gymnasium. It is also thought that the dean of the Law School is behind the movement. Dean Pound did not sympathize with such activities among the Law School students, believing that they should spend all their time on their studies, but both Landis and the acting dean, Morgan, believe that athletics are salutory...
...year for U. S. Anglophiles. This year, because the Coronation outranks it as an attraction, there were fewer Americans than usual in the crowd of 500,000. In the Earl of Derby's box sat King George and Queen Elizabeth, who had the good fortune to bet a pound note on the winner. Feature of the race, which only seven of the 33 starters contrived to finish, was the outrageous behavior of a horse named Drim. Drim unseated his rider, ran on without him, caught up with the leaders, tried persistently to bite them until the race was over...
...citizen was again honored at home by having a new parkway named after him. Verity Parkway, as a publicity release related, was a tribute to the man who had operated the country's eighth largest steel company for a third of a century without the loss of a pound of production or an hour's work from labor trouble. Armco spirit, Mr. Verity once wrote, makes for "Pep, Pride, Production, Progress, Patriotism and Prosperity." To Middletowners George Verity seems in deed eternal...