Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will of English-born Doggerelist Robert W. Service, dead at 85 last year in Monte Carlo, disclosed last week that in succumbing to The Spell of the Yukon (published in 1907), Service successfully mined a heap of gold with his pen. His net estate...
...Douglas gently belabored his colleagues with some unanswerable facts about their own housekeeping extravagance. Piled in the corridors of the old Senate Office Building, Douglas reported, are 375 desks, 215 steel filing cabinets, 400 chairs, many other odd pieces of old but usable furniture, all destined for the junk heap. Yet the Senators were ordering $113,000 worth of new equipment. And that $150,000 for new carpeting, requested for no better reason than the fact that Government girls might slip and fall on the tile flooring, struck plain-living Senator Douglas as excessive. He offered to buy the girls...
Soon, of course, the perfect crime collapses into a heap of all-too-human, even childish errors-Judd was so rattled that he dropped his spectacles beside the body of the victim. The boys are questioned, tricked into confession, ordered to trial...
Flames tore from the hearth to the library to the Apparatus Chamber and in minutes the whole building was a heap of ruins. The Massachusetts Gazette of Feb. 2 reported that Stoughton and Massachusetts Halls were in great danger as the wind drove cinders on the roofs of both buildings. Also the "new and beautiful" Hollis Hall dedicated just days earlier, narrowly escaped although it was windward. The Gazette called the blaze "the most ruinous the College ever met since its foundation...
Though he does not act his age, John knows that at 77 he cannot count on a long reign. "Well, here I am-at the end of the road and the top of the heap," he told visiting Canadian Premier John Diefenbaker. At another audience he said: "I who have come to the pontificate at such an advanced age do not despair of receiving from the Lord at least the time conceded to St. Agatho [Pope from 678 to 681]. There are so many things...