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Word: poundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following decades came a select parliamentary committee, a royal commission, a Paris conference, three colonial conferences, and most recently a special committee of inquiry, all primarily devoted to the subject. Last week, after 358 years of careful thought, the British government formally announced its intention to decimalize the pound. Instead of consisting of 240 pennies (each worth 1.18 U.S. cents), as it does now, the pound will be divided into 100 new pennies (worth 2.8 cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Damn Dots at Last | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Unchanged ?. For years British schoolchildren have chanted, "Twelve pence make a shilling; 20 shillings make a pound," and the system they were straining to learn is as dismal as the chant. The mere job of figuring a 10% discount on a 3? 3s 3d roast beef could take a man to the edge of starvation. The system had at least one advantage: it had practically always been that way. The pound and penny first appeared about the time of King Offa in the 8th century. They were originally named for the Roman libra and denarius (hence the still used signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Damn Dots at Last | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...moneymen, all such variations will officially disappear with decimalization. They will be replaced by six coins: a halfpenny (worth 1.2 present pennies), a penny, a twopence piece, a 5-pence piece, a 10-pence piece and a 50-pence piece (worth, like the current 10-shilling note, half a pound). The pound will remain but the decimal system means that a price will be written as ?3.33. The sum can then be converted to dollars, simply by multiplying by 2.8, and the simplification may cut bookkeeping time by an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Damn Dots at Last | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Although Coach Bob Pickett must have enjoyed watching his lightweights systematically vivisect their men, the 50 or 60 fans gathered for the occasion liked the 160 and 167-pound matches best...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Wrestlers Decimate M.I.T., 22-13, As Lightweights Build Big Lead | 12/17/1966 | See Source »

Other changes in the Crimson line-up tonight find Bill Zinn at the 145-pound class and Dick Low at 160. Seniors Howie Henjyoji (123), captain Ed Franquemont (152), and Chris Wickens (167) should score well, with sophomores Danny Naylor (130) and Carl Baum (137) rounding out the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Team Faces Engineers On M.I.T. Mats | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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