Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backs from the street at certain heights in crowded districts of the city in order to provide air and sunlight in the streets and for smaller buildings, a new shape has been imposed upon architects. But even with this restriction, the space left cannot be completely utilized since the pile must continue to taper to satisfy the eye. The American Radiator Building which is built of black brick rises to a height of 200 feet where a gilded tower, illuminated at night, seems to float in a hazy cloud. New buildings are usually built in the mass envelope shape, with...
...many years ago", he is quoted as saying, "it was not uncommon to see a dozen cops pile into a wagon and hurry off to quell some riot in a dormitory entry, or in the Square. In my own student days our various committee meetings and editorial conferences were held in the crowded saloons of Harvard Square. Our class dinners and commencement gatherings were occasions of drunken revelry. It used to be a point of honor never to leave a drunken classmate in Boston or down at the port. Instead, he must somehow be got home...
...decisions for you?perhaps one decision in six months?and that's what I am paid for. . . . Don't get the hired man habit." Implicitly Biographer Gardner tells the story of the poor boy who disliked being an underdog strongly enough to hoist himself to the top of the pile, and thereafter beckoned others to follow...
...Sniff! Sniff!) What was her name? "Roses are red, violets blue." (Sniiiiiff!) Not blue?purple?but very pleasant and sleep-provoking. Raquel Meller is standing on his nose singing to him, throwing violets all over his face. ... As the surgeon begins slicing him open he lies buried under a pile of sweet-scented violets...
...Indoor Polo League, the Harvard Jayvee trio submitted to its third route of the season. The expert shots of George Clark '29, brother of the player who helped to overcome the University team an hour later, were proof against the Crimson defense and frequently found their mark, helping to pile...