Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubbish heap between the Business School and River at blazed for half an hour beginning at 5 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Boston firemen, who employed five pieces of equipment in quelling the flames, said that the fire "was probably set on purpose." There was no property damage...
...after 2% years in the Army, all of it Stateside), he shot his way right back to the top of the heap, with earnings of $42,556. But try as he might, Ben couldn't seem to win the big one-the U.S. Open. His swing still didn't suit him; his drives still had a tendency to hook...
...fell on a heap of dirty snow. Passersby stopped, turned, and saw him then; a thin, black-haired man lying broken and dying. The curious gathered, and with them blue-overcoated policemen. Then an ambulance nosed...
...those of anyone looking for hour exams last month. He found three sets of finals and three or four sets of hour exams for every year since 1934, scattered throughout five shelves in no particular order. But after kneeling for half an hour and fumbling through the stratified heap, maybe he found his needle. Then he briskly turned the pages and very likely discovered that the key to his success had mysteriously vanished. All that remained was the unravished pieces which pecked out from the binding in apology. Perhaps the person who tore the exam out did so in disgust...
...built and operated, and to find in the ruin of the sixth Army and its betrayal by Hitler the first indications that they have devoted their lives to a false cause. It dawns on some of them that in a few years their own cities will look like this heap of rubble along the Volga, and that they themselves have helped to bring that about...