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Word: heaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strike. So is labor; a strike is as hard on the worker as it is on anybody else. But a Labor Administration would be beer and skittles for everyone except capital and the public. It is not hard to see who would be on the top of the heap with such a regime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW PARTY | 12/1/1919 | See Source »

...filled with just such men; that there are enough of such spirit to compose baseball nines, track squads and crew eights. If this becomes a proved fact, the return to intercollegiate games will be vindicated. Otherwise intercollegiate as well as informal schedules had better be relegated to the ash-heap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UP TO THE STUDENTS | 2/20/1918 | See Source »

There's a heap of fun you've missed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 1/12/1918 | See Source »

...will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football at many of our institutions would be torn up root and branch and cast into the scrap heap? The future of football as a sport has suddenly assumed a portentous aspect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N. Y. CRITIC CONDEMNS PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL | 1/25/1917 | See Source »

...dump heap that they were put by the Egyptian reconstructors of the temple after a destruction of it subsequent to 600 B. C. The Egyptians of that period, regarding themselves as moderns of the moderns, and certainly the most up-to-date thing then existing, had no respect whatever for the monuments of the Ethiopian period. Old rubbish to the dump. Ten great kings, each perhaps in his own way as great as Ozymandias, king of kings, were "scrapped" relentlessly by those moderns of long ago--scrapped in contemptuous fragments. Nothing more forever of Tirhaka the magnificent, of Tanut-Amon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Romance of the Dump Heap. | 10/16/1916 | See Source »

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