Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last, week officials finished counting New Mexico ballots. Very gingerly they fingered the last few. The election for Senator was nearly a dead heat. All the early returns had shown Democratic Representative Dennis Chavez far in the lead.* Later votes began to pile up for Senator Bronson Cutting, insurgent Republican seeking reelection. With the last ballot officially counted, the vote stood: Cutting, 76,245; Chavez...
...report what he found. Said he got tired of waiting for you to come back, and sat down on a pile of leaves. That's how be happened to discover there was something under the leaves. He dug it out and brought it down to the station...
...Club. After five minutes futile search for the blaze, the good news came that it was really in front of Leverett, so throwing their machines into gear, the smoke-eaters dashed backwards down Holyoke Street, across Mill Street, and thence to Memorial Drive, where they behold a pile of smoldering leaves, apparently not by mischievous urchins some thirty minutes earlier...
...last minute her finer feelings overcame her. When they met again, it was too late, she was about to have a baby by a middle-aged barrister, whom Etta had tricked into fatherhood. Her post-War progress was rapid; she became a smart businesswoman, made a pile, finally completed the furnishing of her house by purchasing a young gigolo husband...
...hundreds, by thousands, the Episcopalians trooped up to the altar. Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile of money, lifted both hands for the congregation to kneel with him in a prayer of thanks. Then seven attendants stuffed the bills into bags, carried them out to be counted-$7,916.56. Meanwhile New York's small Bishop William Thomas Manning had marched, not up to the altar...