Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second meet of the Engineer's season. The individual star of the team is Captain A. D. Smith, who won both the 220-yard and 440-yard races against Maine last Saturday, and who will probably set Captain Burke a fast pace in the quarter mile. In the dashes, Heap and Porter are two of M. I. T.'s best men, while exclusive of Captain Smith, Bateman, Snow, and Makepeace are the fastest quartermilers. This trio, along with Captain Smith and Poor, are the outstanding performers in the 880-yard run. The men who have made the best time...
...just that nations should reward those who sacrifice so much in their defence, and there is little complaint to make on this score. But how long has it been since a noted British scientist bitterly accused his government of casting its geniuses on the scrap-heap." His point is too fully confirmed by history; it is Turner who dies in poverty, not Wellington; Socrates who drinks the hemlock, not Pericles...
...turning in the furious whirlpools among the jagged blocks, they were ground and torn to pieces into shapeless masses, which the river, nauseated with its task, vomited out upon the islands and projecting sand-bars. . . . In on place at a turn of the river I saw a great heap of horses, which had been cast up by the ice and current, in number not less than three hundred...
...Ronald Ross, the authority on tropical disease, told the British Science Guild in London: " You throw your geniuses in the dust heap." He pointed out that the man who discovered methods of inoculation against cholera (Waldemar M. W. Haffkine) and the man who discovered the cure for sleeping sickness (Sir David Bruce) are neither of them now employed by Great Britain. Also, Walter Reed, the American who discovered that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, died without knowing how his wife and children would be provided...
Again and again Mr. Monteux justifies the sometimes lavish praise which his admirers heap upon him; often he even exceeds their fondest hopes. This he did yesterday afternoon in the fifth Friday afternoon concert of the Symphony Orchestra...