Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...besieged it round the clock. The treasure hunters climbed trees, trampled new lawns, rummaged through garbage cans, shined flashlights into bedrooms, invaded homes to use toilets, even scaled a householder's roof to case his chimney. Moaned one property owner: "It was like being in an African ant pile. There were so many of them it wouldn't have done any good to kill one." Other get-rich-quick hopefuls delved beneath the gravestones in a local cemetery, pulled up surveyors' stakes in a newly laid-out subdivision...
...Bronx brick pile is the embodiment of a theory, much argued by educators, that, like the slow-witted and the physically handicapped, bright students should be cut from the herd and schooled separately. It is one of four public high schools in New York City* permitted to accept or reject potential students on the basis of academic ability...
Next year Bronx High will leave its dirty yellow brick pile (Former Principal Meister will move in with his newly founded Bronx Community College) and take over a lavish, $8,000,000 brain trainery, equipped with special labs for independent student research. Last week the joyous grind for next year's scholarships continued; Math Department Chairman Irving Dodes dismissed a class studying symbolic logic, said wearily and wonderingly: "I can't sit down without kids coming in, pestering me for advanced math books or trying to prove the impossible. It's a continual effort to keep...
...kill desirable animals or have other harmful biological effects. If no such disadvantages show up, the bat-killers of Brazil and other vampire-menaced countries will soon fan out into the jungle, catch vampire bats, infect them with the disease, and release them to return to their caves and pile them high with dead...
...Malley agrees with the diagnosis. But rebuilding the team, he argues, was impossible so long as his base of operations was the stained and gloomy pile of masonry hard by Prospect Park. "Look at it this way," says he. "Brooklyn draws a million people. Milwaukee draws two and a quarter million. Results: 1) they can pay their players more; 2) they can absorb more farm club losses; 3) they can have more front-office talent; 4) they can buy more bonus players. The momentum is Milwaukee's. Obviously, we have deteriorated into a noncontending ball club. I decided that...