Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to devaluation of the pound, some of the smallest of the British cars were priced well under U.S. cars. Nuffield's two-passenger MG Midget was down to $1,850 delivered in New York, Austin's five-passenger sedan was tagged at $1,480 (its "hardtop" is higher), and Ford Motor Co. Ltd.'s small, four-passenger Anglia...
Student interest in the olfactory phenomenon was sufficient to cause the Princetonian to send a man to the source of the news. He revealed to the anxious student body that after processing, the manure is packed by Walker-Gordon in 100-pound bags, cleverly labeled "Bovung," and shipped across the New Jersey countryside...
With his first race over a week away, on April 29, against M.I.T., Coach Bert Haines has already named his number one freshman 150-pound crew. The development of the first boat is on schedule, despite a late start on the Charles and hampering winds and rain...
...Varsity fifties? They're about an average boat," Bert Haines, coach of the 150 pound crews, says casually. But observers around Nowell Boathouse call them the smoothest crews on the Charles...
Rickenbacker eventually collected three Duesenbergs, plus a pound of good-luck charms, and a team of drivers, mechanics and pitmen to lead to the racing wars. It was a hard and dangerous life-Rickenbacker was almost beaten to death by flailing rubber when he blew a tire at 90 miles an hour at Galveston, and missed death by inches at St. Paul when his car somersaulted three times...