Word: pile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building adjoining the newspaper office, which I described in my last letter, we found a pile of mutilated leaves, of a smaller size and more compact than those of the newspaper. These also proved to contain writing when subjected to the water test. As we had difficulty in entering this building, which was in the nature of a cell, we came to the conclusion that it was a storehouse either for precious documents or for matter which had been banned and stored away from the public eye under lock and key. The material in the documents, which took the form...
Playing under difficult conditions, on a strange field almost ruined by several hours rain, the Syracuse lacrosse team was nevertheless able to pile up ten goals against the University in the game at Soldiers Field yesterday, and kept the latter from scoring, so that the final score stood 10-0 at the end of the two thirty-minute periods...
...choice of the opening wedge should, however, be made with the greatest care. "You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". Forcefully to implant the recalcitrant lad in the midst of a pile of "classics" is likely to be fatal. He must be nursed along from old tastes to new. There are, fortunately, plenty of books possessing the intensity of action of the "dime novel" together with that cleverness of style which somehow creates an atmosphere of reality lacking in the latter. Men like Kipling, Mark Twain, and, above all, Stevenson will almost infallibly...
...climax of the second period came when a tangle of a dozen players at the side of the Crimson cage degenerated into a pig-pile and completely overturned the net. Football tactics were in order from first to last, the clever blocking of Humphrey and Owen on the Crimson back-ice proving one of the features of the battle. That pair of gridiron stars stepped into the hardest shots fearlessly, and put up a stone-wall opposition to the visitors' advance. Their checking defense was superb and without exception every Canadian forward who broke through the line for an individual...
...heave is not used, must quickly form a rushing defensive interference, and meet the offensive interference at the scrimmage line. Result a young Freshman-Sophomore rush, long ago tabooed for brutality! Result in rushing also nothing, for like two equally heavy express trains colliding head on they crash and pile up with no gain...