Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, not in his budget message but in a press conference held before he sent it to Congress, President Roosevelt intimated that he thought it would be foolish to build up such a huge reserve. For the time being he would be content to let the reserve pile up, but after it has got a start, adopt a "pay-as-you-go" policy, presumably reducing Social Security taxes so as to collect no more than was paid out in pensions...
...point score to date is 45 3-4 for the Varsity against 35 3-4 for the Freshmen, with the Varsity expected to pile up a more commanding lead in the events today...
Trials & tribulations which led to this substantial co-operative publication success were many. Mouse-poor, the News-Herald founders had to start printing with an ancient press which they dug out from under a pile of rubbish and bought from a job plant, on terms, for $1,100. They turned it over by hand when it failed to function on the paper's first '"run." Later expert Pressman Jim Gauntlet was called in consultation from Seattle. Cried Jim Gauntlet when he spied the News-Herald press: ''Good God! I thought I had seen the last...
...other domestic beasts recognize human fear just as humans recognize it in each other. Some comments on the Terhune-A. M. A. controversy last week: Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, Bronx Zoo herpetologist: "Any indication of fear, either in humans or animals, is a temptation for the adversary to pile...
...soon S--knocks and off with him to a strange place in the Square. Fairly pulled by S--; he has something for me to see. Two long flights of creaky stairs. Down a corridor. A sharp turn to the left, and in a small door, where the most peculiar pile of wood and metal I ever saw. Large box-like things around the room; men working with copper wire at little tables. An air of order and quiet. S--informs me these are the studios of the Harvard Forest. Laughing lightly at my quizzical look, he adds that the Harvard...