Word: poundingly
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Robert V. Pound, professor of Physics, and Glen A. Rebka Jr. '53 will share the 1965 Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for their experiments helping to confirm Einstein's Principle of Equivalence...
...award recognizes work done in 1960, before Pound began obtaining data 10 per cent below that predicted by Einstein. Had these figures been correct, they would have cast doubt on the validity of the relativity theory. But Pound eliminated the discrepancy by refining his equipment, and confirmed the equivalency principle with increased accuracy--to within 0.0003 per cent of predictions...
McCarthy, a 6-foot-2, 178-pound senior, led Yale to a 6-2-1 season record and third place in Ivy League competition. He was also quite active in civil rights and other campus organizations...
Perhaps the best Crimson performance came not from a winner, but a fourth-place finisher. Captain Art Croasdale, competing before a tiny crowd in the afternoon field events at Northeastern, got off a 59' 6" toss in the 35-pound weight...
...giving them a useful chunk of cash, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry has established itself in the relatively short span of 16 years as probably the most highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency of the prize was cut to every two years...