Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobless U.S. clerk who falls victim in London to a wonderfully impractical joke. Two rich British brothers have made a wager: one bets that a man with no other resources could live for a month on the credit he could cadge simply by flashing a legitimate million-pound note; the other bets that he would sooner or later have to cash the bill. Peck is picked, and told that if he succeeds he can name any job he wants...
...pocket millionaire." Heiresses of ancient lineage come to squeal like pigs in clover and an old friend shows up with a "sure thing"-a gold mine guaranteed to make millions later for thousands now. It all moves along amusingly-until the hero discovers that he has lost his million-pound note...
...prodded Sholes into turning out machine after machine. When Densmore got a new model, he gave it to a compliant friend with precise instructions: "Give it a good thrashing. Find out its weak spots . . . Sholes is sick of experimenting, but I am going [to] make the thing work or pound the hell...
Joseph Harrison Ill '56 of Ardmore Penn, and Dunster House was elected varsity heavy crow manager for 1955-56. William H. Pear II '56 of Greenwich, Conn., and Dunster will manage the varsity 150-pound crew in the same year...
Winners of the competition for manager of the freshman heavy and 150-pound crews were Ralph A. Power, Jr. '57 of North Andover, Mass., and Weld Hall, respectively...