Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduction of sixpence (7?) in the ordinary tax rate of nine shillings to the pound. This reduces the ordinary income-tax rate from 45% to 42½%, on both individual and business incomes...
...turn state's evidence against a powerful underworldling in return for a reduction in sentence? While Ginger thinks it over, she trollops around her hotel suite, munching breast of guinea hen and the biceps of a policeman (Brian Keith) at Government expense. When Keith declines to give his pound of flesh, Ginger growls: "You [men] are all alike. You only got different faces so we girls can tell you apart." How she can tell Keith apart from any one of a dozen other young comers in Hollywood is more than a moviegoer can say, but at least there...
...third time since Bert Haines retired in 1952 there is a new varsity 150-pound-crew coach at Newell Boat House...
...they are, others are unprintable. Yet most lawyers who have studied under Seavey would probably agree with Frank Pace, Jr., former Army Secretary, who calls the professor's questions "infuriating" but adds that they "caused us to ponder our own solutions and eventually to reach others more sound." Roscoe Pound places Seavey "among the outstanding teachers in the history of the Harvard Law School." Such tributes are particularly appropriate now, incidentally, for Professor Seavey is retiring this June after 50 years of teaching...
...Unbothered, although he was carrying one pound more than his assigned 114, Paul Andolino's unbeaten dark bay colt Boston Doge started his spring campaign by winning his ninth race in a row, Jamaica's Experimental Handicap...