Word: piles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After that Ralston had few ambitions. He virtually turned down a nomination for President last year, as the deadlock between McAdoo and Smith broke up in the Democratic Convention. He ordered his name withdrawn as votes began to pile...
...wallpaper of their bedrooms. "What," they thought sleepily, "was going to happen today?". With a start they remembered that it was the day for Mayor Nelson's paper, hurried into their clothes and downstairs to where the Sunday paper waited with its many crisp, exciting layers, like a pile of griddle cakes, beside their coffee cups. With what a sinking of the heart they crackled through those layers. Why, except for an extra page about religion, and the fact that there was no "immorality" on the front page (all crime news was segregated in an inside section) the Pioneer...
...that two days have elapsed, and the exhilaration of Harvard followers at seeing their eleven pile up point after point has somewhat absted, reason dictates that the score of the game can hardly be taken as a criterior of the team's prowess. Middlebury was hardly represented by an eleven which could test the Crimson's power, nor did it possess the substitutes necessary to relieve the badly baltered line. Holy Cross, undefeated, is to be faced this Saturday, and promises to provide the first severe test...
...lagoon 240 feet wide filled by water from the Great South Bay, canals flowing under pile-set villas, a fleet of gondolas imported from Venice, a huge swimming pool-these were the particulars of a Long Island real estate scheme announced last week by the Meister Builders, Inc. The site has been chosen, a 365 acre tract at Lyndhurst and Copiaque...
...authorities worked fast, the flames faster. That night a half-burned pile of examination papers and a completely burned Parliament House were surrounded and guarded by a cordon of police...