Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burning pile of soft coal in the basement of Beck Hall, in front of the Union, called out the Cambridge Fire Department and attracted a crowd of spectators at about 11 o'clock last night...
...things the present Adminis-tration may be remembered for is the books its members have written. Last week its Minister to Denmark, Ruth Bryan Owen, contributed her offering to the growing pile. Not strictly a New Dealer, the daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan eschewed politics and economics, confined herself to weather, scenery, sights. Her little book was the record of a semi-official trip last year to Denmark's biggest colony. Greenland...
...would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move him. The English workmen were afraid of him and kept their distance. "The devil's in that Peter," they would say. "Don't go near him." And on he would scribble, hunched like a great bear on a pile of pig iron...
...resting place, Denver still remembers Jefferson Randolph Smith as one of the most picaresque figures of its bad old days. A slight, dapper, persuasive man, with a silver tongue and a front of brass, his original racket was selling soap on the street. He sold two kinds: in one pile an ordinary "miracle-working" soap, at 25? a cake; in the other, bars at five dollars, whose wrappers enfolded an occasional banknote. The crowd of suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates ever won more than...
...injuries were caused by a heavy landing on a pile of rocks, where Hall was found completely helpless by his companions a few minutes later. Splints improvised from skis were carefully strapped to his hips and arm, and in this condition he was dragged for five miles on a toboggan of skis until the nearest automobile could be reached. First aid treatment was immediately administered, and the injured man was then sent to the hospital. Mrs. Hall arrived later last night to be at her son's bedside...