Word: pile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away their cigaret butts, entered a Manhattan Armory to watch the annual indoor meet of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America. At midnight they emerged, hastily relighted their cigarets, having seen seven records, including two world mark's, lowered, having seen the athletes of Georgetown University pile up 37 points against 24 1/4 for Harvard, 221/2 for Pennsylvania, while 19 other famed institutions straggled after...
...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...
...leading editorial and front page protest, it must be fairly grimy. For the World, as everyone knows, is the loud speaker of anticensorship. And yet the World says of A Good Bad Woman: "Messrs. William A. Brady and Al. Woods have dug even deeper [than David Belasco] into the pile of dramatic offal...
...city where there is many a fine towering pile erected to Mammon much has been made of the millions that have been spent and the millions that have yet to be spent in giving Manhattan what London, Aachen*, Paris, Reims, Wient, Milano, Roma, Seville have long hada magnificent Cathedral...
...second prize was awarded to the extraordinary new structure of the American Radiator Co. on West 40th Street. It is a great black tower, looking not unlike a pile of coal, culminating in glowing gold and yellow, like the flames of an unbanked fire. One of its most notable features is its display basement, where stokers in uniform show heating appliances in actual operation in an elaborately decorative furnace room with a vaulted ceiling...