Word: piled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtyard of the grey Palais de 1'Elysée shuffled the famed Garde Républicaine band; within the huge pile fidgeted Gaston Doumergue, Protestant President of France, Aristide Briand, anticlerical Premier, lesser officials. They were trapped out in state uniforms, ribbons across chests, decorations pendent. They spoke little. Premier Briand was thinking of his successful 1905 fight to oust the Church from its French properties, of his long struggle to keep separate Church and State in France. President Doumergue thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office...
...have been asked recently what kind of comments my essays and predictions have evoked from the ever-expectant public. From the great pile of letters I receive each Monday, I select the one below as typical. It was written by one of the many fair fanettes among my readers...
...lack of organization in the beginning of play against Yale allowed the Elis to pile up five goals in the first chukker, and though the excellent defense work of Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27 kept further tallies down to a considerable degree, the Crimson players were unable to overcome the Bulldog's heavy lead, losing...
That the sword of Damocles, in the shape of a pile of bricks weighing nearly a ton, hung for years over the heads of two University officials was discovered when Massachusetts Hall was recently renovated...
...office formerly occupied by W. S. Burke, inspector of Grounds and Buildings, and C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, was at the eastern end of Massachusetts Hall. The chimney at that end of the building had decayed and a great pile of bricks, weighing at least 800 pounds was lying on the ceiling directly above the unsuspecting Messrs. Burke and Apted. How long this deadly and unknown peril had thus threatened the lives of the occupants of the office below is not known...