Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pound's feats were prodigious in many fields. Although he gave up Botany by the turn of the century he is still regarded as the primary authority on the flora of his home state...
During his lifetime Pound wrote more than 300 treatises and books; the complete bibliography of his writings fills 245 printed pages. In 1959, at the age of 89, Pound published his great five-volume work on "Jurisprudence...
...linguist, Pound could read French, German, Italian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Russian. At age 76, he learned Chinese after his appointment as advisor to the Nationalist Government of China...
...scholar's memory was legendary. He could recite the names of nearly all graduates of Harvard Law School and a standard joke held that if a student over forgot his locke number he had only to ask Dean Pound...
...Pound was a familiar and beloved igure around Harvard Square, the Yard and the Law School. Thousands of Harvard students were accustomed to the sight of the portly old man with a bushy white moustache and bright brown eyes shielded by the everpresent green eyeshade. Until he reached his nineties. Pound worked from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in his Langdell office, continuing his prolific writing and voluminous world-wide correspondence...