Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first climax by weeping with a purpose over Germany's late, great Dr. Stresemann, his colleague in striving for Peace and swift evacuation of the Rhine: "While he lived there were Germans who criticized and ridiculed Stresemann. Many called him traitor for his friendship to France! Now they heap flowers on his tomb. . . . The French Nationalists have attacked me, as the German Nationalists attacked Stresemann! . . . He died at his task. Must one die then, to prove one is sincere...
University Scholarships have been awarded to George Francis Robinson Heap '28, Walter John Arthur Huchthausen 2 S.A., and William Stewart Rogers 2 S.A. The Harvard Club of San Francisco Scholarship is held by Chester Orville Root...
...between the mongoose and the cobra which Paramount interpolated as an allegory in The Letter. It lacks unity but even so is a brilliant collection of facts, much easier to remember and much more interesting than the deftest spoken lecture. Best shots: an ant getting down into the ant-heap with a splinter ten times as big as itself; a Pirhana fish, no bigger than your hand, eating 120 Ib. of pork in six minutes...
...hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...
John D. Rockefeller began to heap up his philanthropies right after his friend and doctor, the late H. L. Biggar, had warned him to cease active business or die quickly. That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...