Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce, who-Antheil remembered-was always asking her husband, "why he didn't write sensible books . . . why he didn't become a banker . . . why he got egg on the bedspread." Back in the U.S. in the '30s, he wrote film scores...
...crops, the grain ration was cut in China's cities and the lowly cabbage was put on the ration list for the first time. Since then, laundry soap has been added to the list and the monthly sugar ration has been slashed to slightly more than half a pound per person. In the great port of Canton there is a shortage of fish; in Shanghai, meat is all but unobtainable...
...years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years of mathematics and almost six years of science...
...should have precluded their invitation. Secretary Dulles, hard pressed, conceded this "imperfection," but found the decision satisfying. His remark failed to comfort the British government, which, often at its own political expense, has supported the American policies of freer trade and economic interdependence. It has managed to stabilize the pound, increase convertability, maintain debt payments, and encourage sales efforts in the dollar area-all objectives which America has been encouraging. Now, with elections approaching, it appears that the United States is abandoning these objectives and is helping the Socialists...
Rick Sullivan will wrestle at 167, while Ted Robbins will compete in the heavy-weight class. Wrestling for only the second time this year, Dick Steinzig will hold down the 123-pound position...