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Word: pounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving up to 157, there are returnee Lennio Miller and Dick Hook. The latter was captain of last year's undefeated freshman team. And even in the frequently sparse 177-pound class, the team has two good men. Both Al Culbert, the football player, and his brother Ken, another letterman, can fill this position...

Author: By Stephen S. Shohet, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/9/1953 | See Source »

Against the barbaric savagery of the Mau Mau, Kenya's Britons fight back with the efficient weapons of the 20th century, and occasionally with a passion that matches that of their attackers. Last week, while the R.A.F. blasted the Nyeri forests with 1,000-pound bombs, which were supposed to scare the Mau Mau out of their hidden lairs, British justice took up the subject of two overzealous officers accused of matching the Mau Mau's cruelties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Background | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...offensive center and linebacker, Coolidge was a 60-minute performer before receiving a knee injury in the Princeton game. He missed the Brown contest, but came back to star against Yale Saturday. The 202-pound senior played all the way until he had to leave the field with a head injury in the fourth quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Team Names Collidge Most Valuable Player | 11/24/1953 | See Source »

Arms & the Man. In Johannesburg, South Africa, when seven armed holdup men entered his store, Grocer James Christopher started bombarding the bandits with two-pound cans of lemon drops, routed them after scoring six direct hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...must have been Class of '14 or so, sat down and cried with joy. The declared read Visitors 13, Yale 0. Already, more youthful Harvards were swarming through the Bowl's exits singing and cheering jubilantly. A few yards to the side, John Culver and Nick Culolias, 200 pound giants, were playfully slamming each other on the back...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Harvard Completely Outplays Favored Yale, to Win 13-0 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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