Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most heinous offense, in Nazis' eyes, was to have in effect conspired to pile up in Manhattan a secret fund of some $100.000 which otherwise would have gone partly to other U. S. creditors, partly to Germany in taxes. "This Bernstein did," snorted the judge, "for purely egotistical purposes...
...Lieber Meister" is what Frank Lloyd Wright has always called Sullivan since his death in 1924. The reverence is due. Louis Sullivan saw with violent clarity that in industrial Chicago the old styles of European architecture would not serve. Chicagoans to whom the noble pile of the Auditorium Building is part of the landscape and St. Louisans familiar with the ten-story Wainwright Building do not often pause for the solemn reflection that in 1889 and 1891 these were great architectural achievements-office buildings framed in structural steel. Louis Sullivan fathered the skyscraper. In 1899 in the Carson Pirie Scott...
...Communists and Roosevelt liberals, who declared only "positive action" by the U. S. could avert war. But all could agree on a personal boycott of Japan, and in the midst of the wrangle the delegates interrupted their recriminations, marched out on the snow-covered campus, lit matches to a pile of boxes. One girl kicked off her shoes, stripped the silk stockings off her legs and, standing bare-foot in the snow, hurled the stockings into the fire. Other silk-clad girls followed suit, snatched the silk ties from male delegates. When all the silk in sight had disappeared, they...
...urchin stuck his face around the huge corner of the Widener Library steps. Cars were splashing away in the streets, but inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than the first step. Gradually, bit by bit he succeeded in molding the uncooperative snow into a large ball. Suddenly straightening up, he hurled it with...
Sever's sweeper was almost to busy to say anything. "I don't think they're after the broom pushers. I haven't heard a word about it. I'm too busy to think about such things." He held up a pile of books left by some student. "Look at these," he said. "Do you think I can be bothered to think about things like that with these to look after...