Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Through practical experience the beginner in business accumulates in piecemeal fashion a growing mass of concrete bits of knowledge. If this lies in his mind as a jumbled pile of more or less unrelated facts and experiences, it won't help him much or enable him to go very far. But if he has some capacity for generalization and seeing things broadly in outline and some ability to think in terms of principles and policies, he will in time be able to work out a pattern or program into which he can fit his accumulated fragments of knowledge in much...
During the World War I was a warrant officer with the 32nd Division, U. S. A. and on the drive through Chateau Thierry . . . I was billeted in a shell-torn building. During the night I slept on a pile of strewn papers in the middle of the floor of a room in this building and in the morning picked up an attractive document written on parchment and in old French script, merely as a souvenir...
Ambulances brought doctors and rescue workers from a dozen towns. Priests gave absolution and surgeons operated in the middle of the streets. One woman was dug from a rock pile that had been a house. "There were eight of us, drinking coffee," said she, and died. Others wandered about all night, calling. That night villagers miles away could still see the benzol plant flaming like a candle to the dead...
...heavy with a dreadful stench. Down the dusty roads moved interminable flocks of sheep bleating mournfully, to converge in great corrals. In the corrals stood gauchos, their flapping diaper-like chiripa about their legs, swinging pole axes. Each time a sheep fell other gauchos were ready to pile the carcasses on the crackling, reeking bonfires. Thus Santa Cruz sheep ranchers wilfully destroyed 60,000 fine sheep for which they could find no markets...
...from hard-won struggles to easy victories, finally dotted half the U. S. with B. Pullmans. When she plunged into Manhattan real estate she emerged a millionairess. Meantime she was buying her only daughter social-educational advantages, often wishing she had time to get acquainted with her. With her pile made, tycoonship achieved, her daughter polished to a fine finish. Bea thought of retiring, of marrying her assistant. Flake, and having some fun before she got too old. Alas for tycoons, she found that Flake and her daughter were hopelessly in love. Over the end of Bea's career...