Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngsters were chauffeured home, changed from filmy evening gowns and white dinner jackets to jeans, skirts and blouses. Next stop was the Elks' Lodge, where supper was waiting. There were hot dogs, half-pound hamburgers, sandwiches and deviled eggs. After supper there was a floor show featuring a lady ventriloquist from Kansas City, who had been tipped to the names and peccadilloes of members of the senior class...
...This system for changing nuclear energy into electric power has long been known. The trick is to do the job economically. A single pound of U-235 fuel contains as much potential energy as 2,600,000 lbs. of coal. The U-235 fuel is expensive, and to use it in a reactor requires a critical mass, enough to generate a chain reaction. Providing the critical mass is much the same as stockpiling the potential power in 10 million tons of coal before a single shovelful is used...
...theatergoer No. 1, a patron of such young poets as Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bridges, and Walter de la Mare. He took it upon himself to correct George Bernard Shaw's pronunciation and got called "a bumptious novice" for his pains, tidied up Ezra Pound's Greek, played charades with Playwright James M. Barrie. Between 1912 and 1925 he edited and published six volumes of poetry to help his young poet friends get started...
Michael T. Chambers '55 of Adams House was named junior heavy crew manager for 1954 as a result of this year's managerial competition, while Joseph D. Buckley '55 of Dunster House was selected as the 1954 Junior manager of the 150 pound crew. Nicholas J. Coolidge '54 of Eliot House moves into the position of next year's varsity heavies manager, and George D. Langdon '54 of Winthrop House into the position of 1954 manager of the 150 pound crews...
Harold O. J. Brown '53 of Tampa, Fla., and Adams House received the Henry Herbert Haines Trophy last night at the annual dinner of the Crimson's 150-pound crews held at the Harvard Club of Boston. The award is given to the senior light-weight oarsman "who best exemplifies the ideal spirit of 150-pound crew...