Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest, perhaps last slip is what he sees as the current creeping relegation of the Constitution to a rubbish pile where every forgotten man can pick it over...
...Montreal last week, a combined team of Montreal Maroons & Canadiens and a team composed of star players from the other six teams in the National Hockey League flashed across the ice and began to belabor the puck. Quickly the All-Star team began to pile up a 6-to-2 lead. Then suddenly in the last four minutes of play, the Maroons-Canadiens clicked. Three swift goals followed, then the closing bell. Winners by a breathless margin, the All-Stars skated off the ice with a 6-to-5 victory. Thus was raised enough money, added to private subscriptions...
...photographers wandered into Langdell Hall during the last week of September and stayed in the vicinity of the Law School for the better part of a week. During this stay they took candid and regular shots of all sorts of subjects ranging from Dean Landis down to a pile of law books...
...years ago last week the new $40,000,000 Waldorf-Astoria, a pile of smooth towers rising 47 stories from Manhattan's Park Avenue, opened its urbane revolving doors just in time to let in the cold whiffs of Depression. Three years later the hotel owed $3,385,000 in back rent to the New York Realty & Terminal Co. and tall, plump President Lucius Boomer had to handle a strike of restaurant workers (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Last week two celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy...
...Washington press corps, as "Fred," he drew him into the cabin, consulted with him and then sent him back out into the corridor with word that an interview would follow breakfast. Then Mr. Justice Black popped his head out in the hall to order ham & eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative of the Paul Block paper, just in case Mr. Justice Black had not read the expose of his Klan activities in the paper of their origin; failed to recognize in spite of his 10 gal. hat Post-Gazette Reporter...