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• According to Moscow's plans, Ukraine was slated to supply a quota of 360 million poods of grain [1 pood = 36.11 lbs / 16.38 kgs.], only 70 per. cent of which the country was capable of producing. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• Our Crossfit WoD this a.m., 3 rds for time of: 50 jumping pulls ups, 15 KB swings (1.5 pood, overhead), 9 burpees. —  UrbanGrounds
• A pood is about 40lbs 76] On slender supports 77] Pod mostom_, i.e._, says Afanasief (vol. v. p. 243), under the raised flooring which, in an izba_, serves as a sleeping place 78] Zatvelyef_, apparently a provincial word 79] The Russian word krof also signifies blood 80] The last sentence of the story forms one of the conventional and meaningless "tags" frequently attached to the skazkas. —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
• Two pood (seventy-two pounds) of the plant yield generally one vedro (twenty-five pints) of raka Steller says, that the spirit distilled from this plant, unscraped, is exceedingly prejudicial to the health, and produces the most sudden and terrible nervous effects Besides these, Krascheninnikoff mentions a variety of other plants, from whence the inhabitants prepare several decoctions; and which, being mixed with their fish, make palatable and wholesome ragouts. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
• And when we had learned from the bulochniks that the soldier began to court "our Tanya," we felt so dreadfully good and were so absorbed in our curiosity that we did not even notice that the proprietor, availing himself of our excitement, added to our work fourteen poods (a pood is a weight of forty Russian pounds) of dough a day. —  Twenty-six and One and Other Stories

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