Word: piled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew forth a roll of paper money, a chuckling pile of coins...
...whether he had subjected any atoms to hydraulic compression that he had limited his activities in this field to pressure of many tons upon single metal crystals: At Yale, a pressure physicist has succeeded in making a fat square atom into a long thin atom by means of a pile driver, but the significance of his experiment has not thrilled the scientific world...
...stepped Mr. Hart. "Pile in, gentlemen," invited Mr. Hart. The gentlemen piled, and the freight pulled out toward Boston, pulling as if it were drawing 110 cars...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, football coach of the University of Chicago: "During a practice scrimmage between my Varsity and freshman teams, I, aged 64, failed to skip out of the way of a crashing line play, was bowled over and buried at the bottom of a pile of some 20 kicking, thrashing athletes. When this pile was removed, there I lay, senseless. Water soon restored me and up I leaped to berate the Varsity for failing to check the freshmen's attack. . . . On Saturday, the Varsity lost to Illinois...
...rhythm, most steps firm, assured, a few a trifle embarrassed by glory, to the chancel. There were hoods of scarlet, hoods of green, hoods of orange, purple, blue, set off by touches of spotless white, the whole toned down to harmony by the austere background of a white granite pile. Among the robe wearers were 40 university, college and seminary presidents, including two women, Mary E. Woolley (Mt. Holyoke), and Ellen F. Pendleton (Wellesley). In a gown a cardinal hue, symbol of University of Glasgow honors, was the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, D. D. (N. Y. U., Yale, Harvard, Columbia...