Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty pile of legislative lumber remained last week to be sawed by Congress before adjournment. But controversies between men at opposite ends of the saw grew hotter with the weather instead of abating...
Cancer is a wildfire growth of rebel cells. Why and how normal cells suddenly go haywire and pile up into malignant tumors is the crucial research problem in cancer today. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Milwaukee, Dr. Herbert Eugene Schmitz and James Ernest Davis of Chicago's Mercy Hospital prodded the dark cancer whirlpool with one more little ray of light...
...From the Manure Pile. The News's touch with the common people is no accident, but the result of self-conscious effort on the part of its publisher, who is famed for his rough-&-ready dress, his brusque manners and his liking for rubbing shoulders with the proletariat in saloons and subways. A rich boy himself, Joe Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running...
...committee recommended no specific legislation, but it did recommend a business policy: profit-sharing by which workers can share in the thumping harvests of fat years, pile up a competence against old age. (For a company which uses such methods...
...thousand Hi-Y boys (junior members of the Y. M. C. A.) gathered round a platform in the Court of Peace at the New York World's Fair. In their centre, a torch in his hand and a pile of wood at his feet, stood Tracy Strong, general secretary of the World's Alliance of the Y. M. C. A. Cried he: "I now light this International Fire of Friendship." Mr. Strong touched his torch to the wood. As the fire sprang up, Y. M. C. A. boys from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, South America threw faggots...