Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman race the second freshman heavies and the first freshman 15's will race Tech's second freshman heavies and LaSalle's first freshman heavies. The Jayvee 150's will stand Tech's and Dartmouth's varsity 150's in the 150 pound race. The other eights, Eliot's first boat, the Weld Boat Club football crew and the Union Boat Club's second boat will fight it out for the Brown trophy against Brown, Dartmouth and others in a less highly touted race...
...explanation of the alignment of boats in these races is in order. 150 pound crews, containing no man over 155 pounds are slower and can keep their pace for less distance than the average heavy eight. This is because much of the smoothness and drive of a shell is provided by the easy swing of the upper body and shoulders of the oarsmen at the catch and that, because light weights must make up in strength what they lack in beef, they muscle out a more strenuous and less rhythmic stroke. The Crimson third heavies versus the first...
...year-old Landis held the Law School dean's post before Roscoe Pound, University Professor, emeritus. He is a former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...November the Sun sprang his series. It named the racketeers who controlled the piers, stole an estimated $50 million a year from cargoes, exacted a tribute for every pound loaded or unloaded, and held office in, or operated through, locals of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan let off a windy counterattack that accused Johnson of being taken in by Communist-line reformers. The Sun printed Ryan's bleats along with Johnson's point-by-point rebuttal and went right on blasting...
...appointment follows the retirement last year of Dean Roscoe Pound, who had served as University Professor since 1935, when the four posts were first established. The other three chairs are currently held by Werner Jaeger, Classicist; Summer H. Slichter, economist; and Ivor A. Richards, humanist...