Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apologists may argue ad nauseum and alibi artists may spin endless excuses. All jailbirds, it will be said, are clubhouse lawyers. But should they be good enough lawyers to out-talk the young Phi Betes who are prepping for Harvard law classes once taught by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound, and Felix Frankfurter...
...pound sterling would be revalued upward...
...knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake the Bull had his finest hour, but it wasn't fine enough...
...Chemical Co. was getting ready to open the country's first continuous-rolling mill for magnesium sheets used for planes, machinery, etc. The 100-million-pound-a-year plant, at Madison, Ill., will increase U.S. output of magnesium sheet, formerly rolled by hand-operated presses, by 30 times...
Recent fine performances show that Al Wilson stands a good chance of taking second with the 35-pound weight to the startling heaves of world's record holder Tom Bane of Tufts. Wilson and Jerry Kanter, however, will run into a greater quantity of quality competition in the shot put. Dick Rubin will also compete in the weight-toss...