Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pickett once candidly admitted "there's no glory to wrestling." But the varsity coach is hardly as pessimistic about the sport as this might lead one to believe. For almost 20 years the former 175-pound national champion has virtually lived on the mat, first as a school and college champion and now as coach. Today he is two meets shy of ending his fifth season as varsity coach...
Although he has probably no chance of winning, the Crimson's Carl Goldman will be an important factor in the meet. If he can finish second in the 35-pound weight throw ahead of Yale's Tom Henderson, he would give the team some very valuable points. Of course, the Eli's 250-pound giant, Stew Thomson, is the unquestioned choice in the weights and in the shot...
...Barraclough, 5, and James Bailey, 2, overlooked in the early panic, had mysteriously died right at its onset. Their respective causes of death had been reported as infectious hepatitis and epilepsy, but autopsies showed that they had actually died from lead poisoning. Finally, health officers solved the mystery: each pound of casing still contained a tenth of an ounce of lead, and the children had been breathing the lead fumes around the fireside...
...come up from a mere drop in the cup to claim 25% of the U.S. market. Not only does brewing coffee and dehydrating it at the factory stretch the beans more than 50%, but the housewife wastes less instant coffee, thus the nation is getting far more cups per pound...
DeSapio, wearing dark glasses to protect his very poor eyes, warned that" until a code of political ethics with meaning and teeth is enacted and enforced, opportunists, will continue to ex-pound falsehoods." He urged leading man to take an active part in politics, but these men refuse to, he said, because they have been "maligned and outraged; insultingly and degradingly characterized as 'politicians...