Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound of meat cost 3.5 marks, a pack of cigarettes 2 marks, an overcoat 200 marks. The fact that he and other workers could not buy at high prices has gradually halted the trade spurt created in 1947 when Western Germany's Economic Director Ludwig Erhard removed many governmental price-fixing and other controls. Erhard, however, did not remove private controls exercised by more than 2,000 German trade associations. The associations have kept prices high to get all the profits they can. The associations tell the shopkeeper how much to charge. If he disobeys, the association...
...powerful will such bombs be? It has often been stated that they will have 1,000 times the power of uranium bombs. This figure may be too large; it may be too small. Theoretically, a pound of hydrogen turned into helium yields about seven times as much energy as a pound of fissioning uranium, and very large quantities can be used. Uranium bombs must not be too big or they will explode spontaneously. Hydrogen bombs would suffer from no such limit. Theoretically, a single bomb filling a whole ship could be exploded in an unsuspecting enemy's harbor. Such...
...yard run--Thayer, Grutzner; 1000-yard run--Rosen, Berman; mile--Cairns, Leeming; two-mile--Gregory, Everett; 60-yard hurdles--Durakis, McCormick; one-mile relay--Durakis, Tsavaris, Thayer, McGrath; two-mile relay--Cairns or Ellis, Baker, Ruby, Williams; high jump--Barwise, Best; broad jump--Carter, Geick; pole vault--Lockett; 35-pound weight--Tootell, Rubin; shot put--Tootell, Trimble, Kanter...
Army is fairly weak at 121 and at heavyweight, but in between the lineup is well-balanced. The Cadets are strong at 128, 155, and 165. Harvard will be at full strength for the match with Charlie Keith returning to the 165-pound slot...
...pound class Kozol (H) decisioned Hayes, 4-1; 128 Shapire (H) decisioned Brown, 10-0; 136 Abboud (H) decisioned Summers, 5-2; 145 Sawyer (H) pinned Myerson with a double arm lock and body press at 8:20; 155 Smith (H) pinned Duke with a far arm lock and body press at 1:20; 165 Connors (H) pinned Gorman with a double wing lock at 6:55; 175-Claflin (H) pinned Kacavas with a half nelson and body press at 1:30; unlimited--Davis (H) pinned Johnson with a body press...