Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was moving his office last year the moving men found a great pyramid of books in a corner of his old office. As the books were taken away, corners of a desk appeared under the pile, finally a whole desk. Dr. Welch was surprised; confessed that he had lost the desk several years before...
...last 100 feet of the 225-foot power plant chimney now being demolished may be knocked down by heavy weights swung by a derrick, it was disclosed yesterday by the American Wreeking Company. Another method which the company may use to topic the pile is known as "burning under". Five wooden blocks, soaked with gasoline, are inserted in the base, the surrounding bricks being removed. Two of the blocks are then ignited, and the stack falls...
...tapestries, furniture through long galleries for the benefit of the U. S. public. And all last week thousands of people shuffled back and forth through four galleries, two corridors, to see the latest, possibly the greatest of the museum's gifts. At one bound the Metropolitan, already an imposing pile, became one of the world's greatest museums...
...wanted to have one herself to play with. Jed would not tell her how it was done, neither would her mother, so she enquired elsewhere. When she was pregnant Jed married her. It gave him the step up he needed; all went well. Business engrossed him, he made his pile; when his wife's seducer won her again he let her go, contemplated a more businesslike partner next time...
Potent prohibitors scurried about the country last week to round up such famed rebuttal witnesses as Henry Ford and Albert Pritchard Sloan. This was because of the mounting pile of evidence from outstanding industrialists and Big Business executives that Prohibition is a failure. The economic benefit of Prohibition is a prime rock on which Drys rest their major argument for its preservation. Against that rock last week fell splintering blows delivered by William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania R. R. ("Standard Railroad of the World"), Republican National Committeeman from Pennsylvania, and Pierre Samuel duPont, board chairman of E. I. duPont...