Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After all, there would always be ten luncs for the Hit Parade, no matter how broadly the composing industry expanded. But when "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fie-yah" reaches the top of the heap, for me it's maybe too much...
Adolf Hitler said last week that he had beaten Russia. He meant that he was beating Russia. He may have had good reason to be sure of the eventual outcome, but he still had a heap of winning to do before he could lay a bearskin on Germany's living-room floor...
Psephomancy, the antique Greek art of divination by plucking pebbles from a heap, is today a $2,500,000-a-year study of the U.S. oil industry. Its present name is micropaleontology, and its new methods were explained last week at the University of Chicago conference (see p. 63) by Geologist Carey Gardiner Croneis...
Plaques in the Union were supplied by the P.B.H. Committee so that the Halls which come out on top of the heap in each of the athletic tournaments may be suitably recorded...
...Course you probably won't take none of our advice--allus hev to larn the hard way--but don't come whinnying to us if you get a saddle burn. The old Lazy H is one o' the best spreads agoin' 'round these parts, dern few fences and a heap of ground fer roamin'. You'll all be stabled up at the Yard the fust year, but outside o' thet yore branding is up to yoreselves...