Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's exports are booming (cars were a record 14,000 in January), and the ratio of import to export prices is the best since the Korean war. While the prices of the raw materials Britain needs have tumbled, the prices of finished goods have not. The pound has become so strong that the government last week lifted restrictions on pound notes: any amount may be brought into Britain, instead of the previous ?10 limit. Unemployment has risen but is only 1.9% of the labor force, not enough to bring a shift in the government's tight credit...
...most action-filled fight of the evening in the House division was the 175-pound match between Eliot's Dan Morgan and Dudley's A.L. Barringer. Near the end of the second round, Barringer, a southpaw, knocked Morgan halfway across the ring with a ferocious right. In the next round, Morgan reciprocated by belting Barringer completely out of the ring, and continued, to gain the decision...
Cambridge as an intellectual community does a good deal more talking than it does creating. From clubroom to European coffee house, the accent is generally on semantics. Literature, as such, remains for maladjusted night people who pound away at typewriters between midnight and two, and file their work in big manila folders...
...Kozol faces Ron Hummel in the 137-pound class. Crimson captain Bob Foster will wrestle Frank Stoever in the 167-pound class. Foster has won all his matches so far this season, and should win over Stoever, who is substituting for injured Tiger Donald Teegarden...
...pound class, Rick Sullivan will attempt to maintain his undefeated record against Dave Callard. Heavy-weight Ted Robbins will face substitute Hal Fringer...