Word: piled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incident in the death of Jan Huss of Prague, who lead the Bohemian reformation a hundred years before Luther. When Huss was bound to the stake after his condemnation by a Catholic Council, a peasant woman brought a little bundle of fagots and cast them on the pile that the fire might burn more fiercely. Huss understood that she did this, not because she was a wicked woman, but because she was frightened. She really believed Huss was the enemy of God. Huss murmured "Sancta simplicitas"-holy simplicity. Upset, frightened, scared to look religious questions in the face-thus...
...instructor, student, fair discipline, nor education can the present hour examinations be supported. Their only justification is in the cases of "doubtful" Freshmen and more than "doubtful" upperclassmen. In these two cases they might--after sufficient warning--be made bases for action. In any others they serve but to pile up work at University Hall, to swell the budgets of tutoring schools, and fatally to emphasize the mechanical side of education.--"Horidae Scholasticae...
Harvard took three firsts and two seconds, but Tech was able to pile up a high score with two firsts, four seconds, and two extra points from falls. C. H. Bradford, on the winning of whose bout the Crimson victory hinged, has formerly beaten Tryon of Tech at Hemenway in the Harvard-Tech dual meet of February...
...undefeated Freshman team will oppose a Yale team which is not undefeated but which is perfectly capable of repeating the Yale Freshman victory of last year. They have bowed to Taft School, 11 to 9, and they were unable to pile up as heavy a score against the Brown Freshmen as were the Harvard wrestlers, but they are none the less a powerful team. Stearns and Captain Wolfe were members of the Yale '27 football team that humbled the Harvard freshmen last fail, and-the latter has been winning his bouts this year, in the 175-pound class, with amazing...
...sorts of evidence continued to pile up at Committee hearings, about those who had an interest in the leasing of Teapot Dome. One J. Leo Stack, a Colorado oil operator, testified that he had heard of the lease to Sinclair a week before it was made. Another, John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post, The Indianapolis Star, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Times and other papers, testified that Secretary Fall had told him of the impending lease a year before it was signed. He also admitted receiving $92,500 for a one-eighth share in the prior...