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Word: pounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pound class, Jay Gaffney managed a draw with Donald Taylor; Jack Daniels (147), Ben Brooks (177), and John Hoffman (191), were outclassed by strong Princeton adversaries, but avoided being pinned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Team Gains Close Win Over Tiger Foe | 2/18/1963 | See Source »

...crisis results from a $28 duty on every pound of imported hops imposed by the government of Sir Roy Welensky because tax revenue from commercial beer has not been up to expectations. "This is due to the spread of home brewing," complained the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Trouble Brewing | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Fred Pereira scored the meet's only pin, while Tom Gilmore and John Hoffman won decisions for the Crimson in the 123 and 191 pound divisions. Jim Gaffney, John Mamana, and Bob Fastov fought to draws, and no Crimson matman was decisioned by more than two points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Team Beats Quakers | 2/11/1963 | See Source »

...greater the distance between them the faster they recede. Since their speed away from the earth can be measured by the shift of their light toward the red end of the spectrum, their distance, which is proportionate to speed, can be measured too. * Units of energy. One foot-pound equals 13,558,200 ergs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Way of a Galaxy | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...scratching out poems in the evening by lamplight. The experience shaped his poetry and his thinking, but failed to impress U.S. publishers. And in 1912, at the age of 38, he took a chance, sold the farm, sailed with his growing family for Britain. There he met Ezra Pound and was unawed, sold his first book, and three years later returned to the U.S. in triumph. In the long later years, he won the Pulitzer Prize four times, taught at Amherst and Dartmouth, was a familiar figure on the lecture circuit. He became a sort of traveling cracker-barrel sage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lover's Quarrel With the World | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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