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...NCAA has moved weigh-ins from 24 hours before a meet to 2 hours before a meet. Now, instead of having 24 hours to recover from the dehydration, a wrestler would be severely weakened in his match if he had cut weight. Also, the NCAA has created a seven-pound buffer on the upper end of its weight classes, meaning that a wrestler who operates in the 118-pound class can actually weigh up to 125 pounds at weigh...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...November 14, 1948, 22-year-old PrincessElizabeth gave birth to a seven-pound, six-ounceboy. It took more than a month--until the day ofthe christening--for the child's parents toofficially announce his name: Charles PhilipArthur George...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: The Man Who Will Be King | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...newest addition to the Harvard University community, Ann Spence, wife of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, Saturday gave birth to a seven-pound 10-ounce baby girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baby Marya Joins Spence Clan | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...passionate fisherman and a passionate taxonomist, and so his collected works include Catalogue of Books on Angling, including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, Etc. Once when he caught a seven-pound trout, he sent it to his friend and whist partner James Russell Lowell, and Lowell rewarded him (and the trout) with some forellean verses that began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Updating John's Sockdolager | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...next office is piled high with current literature. More than 400,000 pieces of literature have been distributed from this room in the last six months. A clerk hands the visitor a seven-pound sample...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: HUAC H.Q. | 3/7/1962 | See Source »

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