Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball team scored five runs in the first inning and kept on scoring to pile up an overwhelming 23 to 1 victory over the First Naval District team in North Boston yesterday. John Kolsti paced the attack with four runs batted in on two doubles and a triple. Bob Gebelein and George McCauley added three more hits apiece...
Actually few go on to get the degree, because it usually takes six years to pile up the necessary 17 course credits and meet distribution requirements. These necessitate regular attendance at once-a-week classes given each evening throughout the academic year in University buildings...
...dances and such. His technique of gaining control is well documented by the recent elections at Southeastern College in Hammond, La. "Specks" (a catchy name for vote winning) had hundreds of signs and elever gimmicks like a clock that said "Time to vote..." He even had an imitation rock pile that read "Rockalong with Specks." Within ten minutes after the display mysteriously burned down a new sign announced "Keep it clean, boys--'Specks...
...Eden family seat for 400 years was Windlestone Hall, a porticoed ocher pile surrounded by lawns, lake and a line of wind-blown beeches, 254 miles north of London. Anthony Eden was born there in June 1897, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an eccentric country gentleman who detested children and barking dogs with equal enthusiasm. At Eton, Anthony played a straight bat and pulled a respectable oar; then, like so many of Britain's public-school boys of his day, he went off to fight in Flanders...
...French Physicist André Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...