Word: pileser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas Jefferson turned over one room to piles of animal bones sent back by the Lewis and Clark expedition. James Monroe imported great quantities of French furnishings, including the gilded Hannibal clock that still ticks away in the Green Room. Andrew Jackson, the "People's President," spent $50,000...
It is to children that automakers often direct their advertising campaigns: one Ford station-wagon commercial piles a parcel of kids into a wagon to impress on youthful viewers that in a Ford the whole gang can go with togetherness.
Slightly more than half the Yearbook's prose is the work of CRIMSON editors, and startling though the statistic is, I can't see that their contribution has helped much. Russell Roberts writes a flaccid chronicle of Harvard, which piles up innovation and anecdotes under each President's name in...
Sometimes the University builders have been more concerned with the accumulation of indoor space than with the creation of beauty and too often economics or tastelessness have blotched the landscape with ugly piles; but the University has been generally fortunate in its assemblage of edifices. A path extended in an...
"I wish they would forget about my birthdays; they only make me a year older," said former President Harry S. Truman, turning 79. But a luncheon in Kansas City brought out more than 200 friends, and the grand old man from Independence beamed broadly as the crowd sang Happy Birthday...