Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spell of the tropics gathers the pile...
Less than a mile from the Allan on Pine Avenue towers the new ten-story, redbrick pile of Montreal General Hospital. Here Director Albert Edward Moll of the Psychiatry Division has carried the half-day hospital principle to its logical conclusion: a compact space at the west end of the fourth floor is a day hospital by day and a night hospital by night. Its 15 beds serve day-hospital patients in much the same way as the Allan unit. But at 4:30 p.m. the day patients leave. At 5:30 the night patients begin to arrive from their...
...hour late getting to the office and an hour early leaving it. I'm one of those unfortunate men who have to have pressure to work well. So instead of efficiently spreading my work out and doing it on a schedule, I tend to let it pile up and do it all at once. I know it's terribly hard on my family and my staff, but it's too late to change now." Once a month he goes on a statewide radio-TV hookup to report on the $100 million-a-year public business that...
...second shift, Lou Marx likes to pummel and chase them frantically up and down the three-story house, allows the boys to squirt water guns and smash toys to their hearts' content. (Idella feels the boys are working off their aggressive instincts.) Once a week the Marx brothers pile into their parents' 13-ft.-wide bed for the night. There they are treated to a bedtime-story session in which Marx spins chiller-dillers about such bad guys as a deformed villain who sautes children's eyeballs for supper. The "mean-man stories," as the children call them, are intended...
What a host of pleasant, interesting people your admirable magazine must have as readers, including more hill walkers and mountain climbers than ever I guessed were in all of motorized America! We've been getting quite a pile of mail, after you mentioned us in the Oct. 31 issue. Some of our correspondents are home-town lovers, inviting us to include their homes on our itinerary so they may communicate their local pride...