Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, the 150 pound jayvee crew, awards will now be made where no recognition had been given before. Members of this crew who are not seniors or two years veterans (who receive minor H's) will now receive major crew numerals...
...last Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale meet was held in England in 1939, when the British whipped the combined American team 9 to 3. Howie Mendel was the only Crimson winner, setting a meet record of 47 feet, 11 inches in the 16 pound shot...
Britain liked what it heard. Birmingham's packed-house response to the first of the Philadelphia's 28 British concerts was as good a prescription for ailing Conductor Ormandy as the half-pound of U.S. beef the doctor had ordered him to eat before each performance...
...admire in his abstractionist experiments. Said the New Statesman & Nation: "This Universe of ghosts with turnip heads and scrolls of tin for bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of his literary friends, e.g., Poets T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Using the diluted cubism that gives all his work a curiously geometrical air, Lewis had hit off an easily recognizable likeness every time...
...spoke at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Worcester. "The professional ideal," Pound said, "is menaced by the development of great government bureaus and a movement to take over the arts practiced by the profession and make them functions of the government to be exercised by its bureaus in a super-service state which may become a service super-state...