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Word: pounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three sophomores on the team is David Grubb, a relatively lightweight 196-pound guard. The center on the team is senior John Thompson, and the tackles are senior Earle Harder and junior Fred Melges. This center of the line is fast and good, and has been providing Pinch and Martin with wide holes up front...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/4/1955 | See Source »

...prescribe the obvious-massive doses of moderation. First, they reassure the patient by explaining what they can do about his disease. Then they advise him to do what he can to avoid fatigue and excitement. He should spend ten hours in bed and take short naps, often. Every extra pound of flesh on the patient means work for the heart, so-reduce. Moderation is also prescribed in smoking and drinking, in exercise and sexual activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Specialized Nubbin | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Leading the Bisons on their offensive rampage is one of the top fullbacks in the nation, 200-pound Bob Ford, sixth in the East in rushing last year...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Varsity Eleven to Meet Underrated Bucknell | 10/29/1955 | See Source »

...about his politics one bit," Hemingway went on to say of the Icelandic author, who has taken part in Communist-sponsored peace movements of recent years but has never actually joined the party. The American writer repeated his comment of last year that he would like to see Ezra Pound win the literary honor, but he reaffirmed that he was satisfied by the choice of Laxness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hemingway Briefs Seven Professors On Iceland's Nobel Prize Winner | 10/28/1955 | See Source »

...introduce its second season of experimental plays, the New Theatre Workshop has presented two "established" works, in order to arouse interest in its later student-written productions. The Twelve Pound Look, by J. M. Barrie, forms a delightful one-act entree. But it precedes a main dish that is not so tempting, for Sean O'Casey's Shadow of a Gunman is a confusing play. The chief trouble with this presentation is its selection in the first place. The acting, however, in both these productions is skillful...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: The Established Plays | 10/28/1955 | See Source »

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