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...pleasures that a U.S. tourist enjoys only in his own country is the ever-increasing number of modern, luxurious motels. In 1951, the American Automobile Association remarked that anyone who has a "pile of bricks and a vacant lot" puts up a motel. Today, competition for the tourist dollar is even more acute, the product more enticing. How tempting and comfortable some of these motels can be is shown in our four-page color spread; what the industry is like is told in The Boom That Travelers Built, in BUSINESS...
...match, Leverett's pile-driving Jack Canning won the quickest bout of the night as he KO'd Dave Hoffman of Lowell in the first 40 seconds of round...
Coach Bill McCurdy's steady but average squad will have to go all out to pile up the seconds and thirds which it has used in dual competition to equalize its enemy's wins. Cornell, Manhattan and Villanova also have such a swarm of top runners that they may overpower the varsity and allow the Elis or the Terriers to take the meet, as the latter schools rely more on a few outstanding stars than on depth...
With coal running scarce in Britain last fall, the housewives of Canklow village in Yorkshire were delighted when a junk dealer showed up hawking a pile of old auto battery cases. The vulcanite cases were certainly a bargain-only a shilling a sackful-and they blazed warmly in open grates...
...Freudian View. Through most of the Christian era, the healing of the mind was considered part of the realm of the soul. The Enlightenment abolished the soul. Its p'ace was taken, in the minds of millions, by reason, which stood atop a quaking pile of instincts...