Word: piled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, by a brilliant success this year. He figured in two set-backs of the Blue, one of which he won himself when his two strike-outs and a triple gave the Holy Cross nine a 7 to 6 win, he defeated Princeton 4 to 1, and helped to pile up a 14 to 3 score against the Crimson. He will join the Detroit major league team next year with what is probably the greatest record ever taken by a collegian into professional ranks...
...most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no stone untreated and have found that the deposits and corrosions of several centuries clearly differentiate the stonework of the monastery from the later structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which was probably at that time an important centre of learning, though it suffered many vicissitudes in its later history (see index under "Business School circular No. 47" on 'The present situation in the Bakery Trade"). There...
Finally, in spite of their warlike exteriors and their ruthless destruction of fences and instructors, Yale freshmen are at bottom quite tractable. When the merry-making was at its height, with Mr. Bangs at the bottom of the pile, someone said: "Willie, go to your room!" Willie hesitated--and was lost, for the voice said: "William, go to your room this instant, do you hear? or we'll call back the crew at Gales Ferry!" And William fled with contrition in his heart; and the most successful Yale riot in recent years had come...
...offer aroused little enthusiasm among the other members of the Shipping Board. It was received with some favor by business men, one of whom hoped that the Shipping Board would follow the boats into the junk pile: "Let the tail go with the hide." Furtively, shipowners, native and foreign, prayed for the demolition of the ships because, bad as they are, they constitute a vaguely potential threat of competition...
...village dogs, the Governor concluded: "The innocent owner of midnight prowling cats not only is to be annoyed by their wails, but if he knows they are fighting and permits the fight to go on, he may be fined and thrown into jail unless he has the temerity to pile out of bed and stop it. . . . "This bill creates another new sin, an unenforceable law." In Lansing, Mich., Governor Alexander J. Groesbeck vetoed a bill for the appointment of a state poet laureate. Forgetful of the state poets of republican Athens, the Governor's historical knowledge...