Word: roscopoundia
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...only one reading. At 12, he entered the University of Nebraska, at 17, emerged as a first-rate botanist, and between studying and practicing the law, he found time to earn a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska, which now boasts a rare lichen called roscopoundia...
...disrupt Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at 17, he studied and practiced law, found time to take a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska (there is a roscopoundia lichen...
...have made a happier choice. Roscoe Pound is as broad in knowledge as he is in beam. Before becoming a ranking authority on jurisprudence and a mighty scholar of the common law, he directed a botanical survey of his home State of Nebraska. He is as proud of the roscopoundia lichen as he is of his knowledge of Freemasonry and Civil War military history. Junketing in Europe last week, Roving Professor Pound in September will welcome as his successor in the job he has held for 21 years his onetime student, SECommissioner James McCauley Landis, roam Harvard to his mind...
During a 17-year career of practicing and teaching in Nebraska, Lawyer Pound found time to direct a botanical survey of the State. There is a roscopoundia lichen. In 1910 he went to Harvard Law School, in 1916 received the deanship, a job from which many another institution has vainly tried to pry him. Once he was actually elected president of the University of Wisconsin. On the wintry night he turned it down, 700 Law School students crowded around his house to cheer: "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Pound, Pound, POUND." Twice married...
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