Word: pounds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Posturing in a four thousand-pound setting of wood and stretched canvas, the 60-odd members of the Marco Millions cast will go through a final dress rehearsal tonight on the eve of the HDC's spring production opening in Sanders Theatre...
...recession are beginning to be felt. Although Britain's total exports were up in the first quarter, there was a 7% drop from a year ago in exports "to the U.S. Even so, world traders were so bullish on the British economy that last week the pound rose to $2.82, the highest since February 1953 and the limit under present exchange regulations...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, who worked with Hooton on studies of delinquency, praised him: "Professor Hooton's untimely death comes as a great shock to all who knew him as a man of profound and fearless scholarship and delightful and original wit. Harvard and the world of anthropology have suffered a great loss...
...pound of the fact that it is not only when the Democrats were in power, but now the people in Moscow, Brussels, Paris, London and Sweden are all Harvard graduates...
...ballistics, points out that their speed when they hit the satellite would be about 46,000 ft. per sec. (31,000 m.p.h.). At this enormous, meteorlike speed, he figures, a particle only five-thousandths of an inch in diameter would punch through the satellite's skin. Since each pound of metal contains more than a million such particles, a warhead weighing 8,000 Ibs. would punch 8.000 holes in the satellite station. The deadly little particles would be moving in slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter widely, then concentrate again. Each time the damaged satellite circled...