Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People's Comissars at Moscow to retain bread cards and the existing bread prices for at least another year. Under the present rationing system, in existence for more than six months, inhabitants of Russia's larger cities, even those of the grain districts, are allowed but one pound of bread -in some cases only three-quarters of a pound-per person...
...regulating markets, production, prices. Thus last week a group of British and South American tin men formed the British-American Corp. with the avowed purpose of stabilizing the price of tin at ?265 a long ton ($1,284). This price would be the equivalent of about 57 1/2 a pound as compared to last week's National Metal Exchange (Manhattan) quotations of around 45?. The one million pound capital of British-American Corp. will be privately subscribed, subscribers including Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Director of Midland Bank (world's largest), Sir John Mullins, whose brokerage firm floats loans...
...Dean Pound's commencement address to the daughters of Eve at Wellesley he intimated that in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we have not partaken of what was forbidden, as did our first parents, but have merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable...
Meanwhile the Waiters' crew went out once and obtained the peak of condition in the single afternoon workout. The crew has put the stroke up to fourteen under the able pace setting of Rainbow, at stroke, and look forward to an easy victory Thursday, David Shaw '29, 200-pound coxswain on the waiters crew is driving his men in a fabulous fashion, for as much as 200 yards at a time...
...seating of the Waiters crew follows: Stroke, Rainbow, former 150-pound oarsman; No. 7, L. L. Wadsworth '30; No. 6, B. S. Clark '30; No. 5, Stewart Cook '32; No. 4, W. M. Dunne '30, No. 3. R. L. Scott '31; No. 2, R. L. Kimball '31; bow, N. J. Tiffany '32; coxswain, David Shaw...