Word: pile
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athletic Association states that it is necessary to enter application before the last few days preceding the game. When many applications pile in at the last minute it is impossible to handle the necessary clerical work, and many may be disappointed. Consequently, the H. A. A. urges all students who still intend to apply for tickets to do so at once...
Early yesterday morning a small fire was discovered in Ridgely Annex. The blaze was put out, however, before any great damage was done to the building or the surrounding property. The fire broke out in a pile of mattresses and debris stored in the basement of the Annex...
...Nation has been prospering largely in a financial sense through this war, and perhaps the farmers, as a class, have prospered more than anybody, but many manufacturers also have prospered. In consequence, we have the largest pile of gold that the world ever saw, according to the statisticians, it being $3,600,000,000. A great deal of gold or gold paper is in the pockets of people all over the country and doing no good. The large banks, corporations, and capitalists are buying these bonds in large blocks, but, inasmuch as this is a democracy, every man having...
...have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing cannot fail to make a favorable impression--with a consequent and deserved increment in grade...
...Mahan threatened three things, two of which he could do well and one brilliantly--punt, forward pass and run. No eleven could be certain what was to happen, and Mahan made the most of the doubtful state of mind. Harvard's interference in the case of a run would pile the tackle all over himself, knock the end galley west and generally take care of the back who was coming up to relieve the two over-pressed defenders on the end of the line. The chances that the full-back has of making as though to run with the ball...