Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest unknown in the backfield is 214-pound Gianelly. He was well suited for the power play in the single wing, but whether or not he can adapt the speed necessary for the A-Formation will not be known until this afternoon...
...lines, there is little to choose. Tufts has an advantage in experience with its first line made up of six juniors and one senior, but the Crimson's front wall is potentially the strongest in recent years, led by 207-pound Captain Ted Metropoulos...
...trouble began months ago when France's 63,000 neighborhood bakers decided that the 45 francs (about 14?) the government allowed them to charge for a pound of bread did not give them enough profit. The bakers asked for an increase of one franc a pound in the ceiling price. The best they could get out of the government was a compromise offer to lower flour taxes and thereby increase the profit margin by about half a franc per pound...
Nuclear fuel is a fine source of energy, one pound of U-235 producing as many calories as 1,500 tons of coal. A modest amount of U-235 could, so far as energy is concerned, propel a commodious space cruiser to the moon and back. But energy is not enough. A uranium-burning rocket motor would have no products of combustion to shoot out of its tail pipe, and without some massive material to jettison, the motor would have no thrust...
...price of a pound of quality coffee in U.S. grocery stores edged up last week past $1.15 - only 15? short of 1954's peak price and a fat 26? higher than 1955'$ low. This time around, the trail of cause and effect appeared to lead straight back to shrewd Manuel Mejia, czar of the Colombian Federation of Coffeegrowers...