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Word: pounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, one Max Hinel, 22, n 5-pound cobbler, ate 75 eggs in ten and a half minutes, thus beating the former world's record by one egg, 90 seconds. Champion Hinel's training meals Consisted of two tureens of potato soup, 40 eggs or four pounds of preserved meat with bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...expected from it if the line does not show to better advantage than it did against the Army and Dartmouth. The line makes the backfield, as the Green forwards proved so conclusively last Saturday. Kuehn has won the race for the right tackle berth and the 190-pound Sophomore will be starting his first game for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ELEVEN TO FACE FLORIDA IN CRUCIAL TES | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

Coach Bachman's squad held a brief workout in the Stadium yesterday afternoon while the University team was given a day of rest. All the Florida players, with the exception of Goodbread, halfback, are ready for action. Goodbread is suffering from a leg injury which may keep the 190-pound sprint star on the side-lines. Should he be unable to play, Dorsett, known as "Million Dollar Monk", will take his place

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ELEVEN TO FACE FLORIDA IN CRUCIAL TES | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

...individual star of the visiting squad is "Cannonball" Clyde Crabtree, ambidextrous triple threat par excellence. He will be watched with a great deal of interest and concern by the Harvard board of strategy for several hours Saturday afternoon. Another Dixie menace is Royce Goodbread, 200-pound halfback whose springtime specialty is running the 100-yard dash in a trifle under 10 seconds flat. Rumor has him confined to crutches now but he is making the trip to Cambridge and don't be surprised if he hobbies out on to the field Saturday and discards his crutches in a moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...that merely toting the mallet about will suffice to carry the horsemen to intercollegiate championships. Possibly, at some date not so far in the future, the steps of Sezer Hall at class time may be thronged with sweat-shirted students swinging baseball bats, tennis and squash rackets, javelins, 16-pound weights, lacrosse sticks, soccer balls, and chessmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT SO NEW AFTER ALL | 10/31/1929 | See Source »

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