Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tracing the impact of literary innovations on undergraduate writers. This kind of literary history is absurd, because, although Harvard undergraduates are imitative, they are not au courant. Usually the Advocate was reactionary and rejected new kinds of expression until they had received world approbation. The Advocate ignored Eliot, Pound, and Cummings until 1930, considering itself "the heroic defender of an unchanging literary standard." It's just now warming up to Ginsberg and the Dionysion-Apollonian poetry squabble...
Dunster's ninety-pound weaklings are heading for squash court number eight these days. For there the Dunster weight-lifting club has made its new home...
...most exciting match of the afternoon, Jeff Hall of Eliot defeated Fred Connell of Lowell in the 160-pound division. The score was a tight 3-2. I'hil Hway (145 lb.) of Eliot helped out his house with an easy victory of 10-4 over J. A. Garlow of Lowell...
...from the kitchen, and America's housewives were ahead of the professionals in spotting the trend. In stores from New York to Los Angeles and from Houston to Detroit over the past six months, the price of bread has risen 2? a loaf, hamburger 10? a pound, children's shoes 50? a pair. Men are being charged 25? more for a haircut than they were in September, and their wives are paying from 50? to $1 more for a shampoo...
...dollar was named after the thaler, the German currency at the time of the American Revolution. The British pound was named for its weight in silver, and nationalistic France naturally named its money the franc. Last week Zambia announced that it would soon trade in its pounds, shillings and pence for something more poetic. In 1968 it will change to decimal currency and one kwacha (dawn) will be worth 100 ngwee (brightnesses...