Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right to name the course, Driver Reis had the race run, she had a close call before she beat Delphine IV. Last month Driver Reis installed a new Miller motor. A few days before the race, a broken connecting rod turned this into a twisted pile of junk which could not be rebuilt in time for the start. Mr. Reis reinstalled his old motor, stopped tinkering and announced that his boat was ready to race, against Bill Horn's Delphine IV, with a new $7,000 supercharger and Victor Kliesrath's Hotsy Totsy II, with a brand...
...born in Leyden on the Rhine circa 1606, youngest son of a prosperous miller. His four elder brothers all became poor cobblers and millers. His parents soon assigned Rembrandt to something better, gave him a year at the University of Leyden before he brought home a pile of drawings, said he was determined to be a painter...
Hard-bitten Round-the-World Flyer Clyde Pangborn fired tracer bullets into a pile of Solene, which looks like greasy brown sugar. The flaming missiles snuffed out. Big Mr. Prussin then thrust a burning torch within three (inches of the pile. The stuff did not catch fire until he touched the torch to it, and then only reluctantly, like a stick of damp wood...
...happened that a good friend of Richard Upjohn was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
...peacetime, when thoughts of the last war can be retroactively sober, it is possible to analyze the impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye...