Word: lb
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Speaking at Indiana University in Bloomington, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt admitted that she'd like to have a couple of Hoosier hogs for her Hyde Park, N.Y. farm if she could get them for $100 each. Farmer L. L. Stewart of Kirklin, Ind. sent her two 300-lb. black & white Hampshire gilts, for which he ordinarily gets $200 each. Said Farmer Stewart philosophically: "She set her price...
Daniel A. "Gus" Cronin, Dudley: Treasurer, Junior Class Com; Executive Board, Crimson Key; Interhouse Dance Com; President, Catholic Club; Dudley House Com; Freshman 150 lb. crew...
James R. Carman, Winthrop, 150 lb. crew, House Crew; House Committee; House Dance Com. Chairman; House D. P. Com. Ch.; Interhouse Dance...
Said Jockey Longden: "We just sighted the wire and set sail." It was fast sailing. With a 22-lb. pull in the weights, Noor (whose 110-lb. package was 3 Ibs. less than Two Lea's and 14 less than Ponder's) had run the mile-and-a-quarter in two minutes flat-just a fifth of a second off the world record and 1⅓ seconds faster than the track record set by Seabiscuit in the same race ten years...
...best customer. He drinks 21 cups of coffee a day, all made in a Cory coffeemaker. One afternoon last week, Jim Alsdorf bubbled with excitement as he showed off another product which can be used after each cup is emptied. It is the "Cory Made Maid," a 23-lb. electric dishwasher, compact enough to fit on the kitchen drainboard, cheap enough ($89.95) to undersell most existing electric models by more than 50%. With it, chipper Jim Alsdorf cockily predicted that he would revolutionize the home-dishwasher market...