Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roscoe Pound, dean of the Law School, last night warned of dangers to the United States public "In regimenting the professions under a super-service state...
...pound, 22-year old future captain established a new Harvard record in the shotput at the Heptagonal Meet here this winter when he heaved the shot 50 feet, 8 inches. He had won both the discus and the shot in every dual meet this spring until Yale's Olympic stars, Jim Fuchs and Vic Frank forced him to settle for two thirds at New Haven Saturday...
Using a 36-to-the-minute stroke, Princeton spurted into the lead. Harvard's 130-pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open...
...smooth stroke with a long easy run paid off with first place in the other races, also. Fred Richardson nosed out faster-stroking Russ Bath by a half length in 3:32 in the half-mile 155-pound race. This race was closely contested by four scullers until the last 20 strokes when Richardson and Bath slowly and steadily pulled away...
...sculls. The Crimson's strongest entry in the singles is Dick Emmett, member of the varsity eight last year. He will row in the championship singles race. Peter Heller and Lou Allen, who have rowed singles for less than two years, will compete in the intercollegiate and the 150 pound races respectively...