Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little trouble with the glass when a 2,000 pound German blockbuster landed in the churchyard during the last war," Cuttell remarked ruefully. However the window was restored and rededicated October...
Thomas Henry Hagoort '54, fo Belleville, New Jersey and Straus Hall, has been elected captain of the freshman crew. The lightweights named Paul Frederick Schlaijker '54, of Weston and Straus Hall. Hagoort rows number four while Schlaijker pulls the number seven oar for the 150-pound boat...
When the fighters entered the Madison Square Garden ring, Williams, who was still earnestly shadow-boxing eight hours before the fight to sweat off the last three-quarters of a pound, looked string-muscled and drawn from the strain of making the weight. Carter, also 27 and a natural lightweight (133 lbs.), looked plump in comparison. And he did not seem to have read the jeering predictions of the sportwriters...
...fact that an obscure and ugly phrase happens to have been borrowed from Pound does not make it good writing. It would not be good writing even if the reading public were familiar with the Third Part of "Mauberly," which is not the case...
...Peirce demonstrates a detailed knowledge of poetry that obviously qualifies him to write criticism for the Advocate, but he misses the point. the reviewer was not challenging Mr. Kalser's wide knowledge of poetry; the intelligence that the ghastly phrase in question comes from Pound does not change the issue. For all our "not-soerudite" reviewer knows the whole review may have been composed exclusively of quotations from Pound, all woven together...