Word: pile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Josiah Quincy president of Harvard at the 1836 bicentennial and a methodical man by nature, did up a pile of letters from alumni congratulating the University on its 200th birthday, and stuck them away in the attic of University Hall. 100 years later, flocks of photographers and reporters buzzed around the old documents, and there was a great furore over their un-sealing...
...entrepreneur of a whole festival of Coward plays which arrived in Manhattan. Actor-Author Coward had written them, directed them, scored them for music, provided in each a part for himself and Gertrude Lawrence. In so doing he seemed in a fair way to add to his record pile...
...huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield. As he tires, he returns to his home range, begins to run in ever narrowing circles like a fox. At the kill, the hounds pile on their prey, often smother him before they have ripped him badly with their teeth...
...curriculum, the faculty should consider the subjects that can be covered in undergraduate work, rather than increase the years in law school from three to four. For while an extra year would give time for worthwhile special study, the rank and file of men should not be compelled to pile Pelion on Ossa in an already burdensome education...
...Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones." Dispatched to the Northwest for some of her famed construction shots, Photographer Margaret Bourke-White came by chance on these frontier scenes. LIFE'S editors snapped them...