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...expensive; the dollar's decline will add as much as 1.5% to the inflation rate this year. More important, a nation's currency is the symbol of its economic vitality and the instrument by which it exercises its world role. The fall of the once-mighty British pound from $4.03 to a low of $1.55 was both a contributor to and a measure of Britain's postwar decline. When Charles de Gaulle returned to power in 1958, one of his first acts was to restore the French franc to strength with a currency reform that devalued...
...John P. Kalas writes in the Athletic Journal of January 1977, "A 60-pound barbell--if suddenly jerked or thrown--can exert a force of several hundred pounds, or can exert a force that literally measures below zero! Such rapid exercise is not only unproductive as far as strength training is concerned, but is also very dangerous to the joints, muscles, and connective tissues...
...Pound caked, pressure-can whipped cream, 2 spoons canned strawberries...
...Ezra Pound was one of the magazine's first contributors. Within a few years (and a few pages) a lot of poets are sounding like Pound. The muse seems hardly to notice World War I; the next conflagration receives extended attention from writers as diverse as Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro and Robinson Jeffers. Teacher-poets appear in the '30s and '40s: R.P. Blackmur, William Empson, Allen Tate. A generation later is heard the dry academic rustle of those they taught...
McDaniel taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1937, when he retired as chairman of the Classics department there. He also taught such notables as Ezra Pound and Thornton Wilder...