Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster House, first in tackle football, tied for the lead in soccer, and third in touch football, appears a sure bet to pile up the most points in the fall intramural program. The Funsters are undefeated in tackle football and soccer, and will move into a tie for second in touch football with the loser of the playoff between Winthrop and Adams...
Specializing in a particularly devastating pass rush, the forwards have also shown crunching, precise, double teaming, good enough to let the backfield pile up the best offensive record in the league...
...count, each ballot represents only one vote; if a ballot cannot help the person markd as first choice--either because he is already elected or because he is obviously defeated--the vote goes to the second choice and so on. Thus, the ballot is transformed from pile to pile until it can help someone...
...Last week London newspapers reported that for the first time in the 20th century Britain is now selling more to the U.S. than it is buying. Taking all items into account (exports, military costs, economic aid), the famed dollar gap has been closed; since 1950 Europe has increased its pile of gold by $8 billion, and the outside world as a whole has managed to amass short-term credits in the U.S.-all constituting potential claims against gold-of $15.6 billion. Last year about $2 billion in gold flowed out of the U.S., and this year's U.S. deficit...
...week-a bankroll that supports sleuths ranging from a corn-fed country operative named Hannibal Cobb, who appears in five-minute syndicated slices, to a brand-new sunburned entry, Hawaiian Eye, with a mixture of lets and lead, and a full hour on the screen. As the corpses pile up in the living room, citizens who know crime only from the tabloids follow the Eyes like men on the trail of their most desperate hope. And as the evenings pass, one Eye blurs inevitably into another, a TV trouble that even an honest repairman cannot cure...