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Word: pilings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field, professional-football champions are described as not "unduly sober citizens," who "belt the bottle or some barroom companions"; on the field, they endeavor to dismember opponents, pile on the runner, and commit various forms of mayhem. What an inspiration to American youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Disturb us and you will be turned to ashes!" cried the officiating sadhu, a holy man, as Surana's men forced their way through the ring of rubbernecks. The cops attacked a pile of cement slabs with pickaxes and dragged a young Hindu out of a freshly dug grave. A 25-year-old laborer who had become the sadhus' "disciple" only two months before, he was barely alive. But dead or alive, his act of faith would have made the hill a profitable shrine for his masters who would later pass the hat to pilgrims coming there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Suttee Boom | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...paced by Hill Smith's probable record-breaking 2:17.5 performance in the 1000 yard run, took eight first places out of 13 events, but the Crimson managed to pile up enough points in the lowers positions to win the meet. The varsity swept the high hurdles and the 600 yard run, and pulled an upset when Goldman won the 35 pound weight throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Track Team Upsets B.U., 57-52, As Terriers Default in Last Two Events | 12/16/1954 | See Source »

...Chicago's football stadium. An international group of physicists watched with some apprehension a massive, dead-black structure of graphite bricks with uranium spotted through it. Fermi was in charge. His discoveries in Italy about neutron behavior (which won him the Nobel Prize in 1938) had laid the "pile's" scientific foundations. His development work in the U.S. had built it out of theory. Now the pile was ready to go. The watchers knew that on its performance hung the success of the plutonium bomb and perhaps the outcome of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Navigator | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Back from a long, unhurried lunch, Fermi reassembled his crew. The control rods were drawn out. The instruments clamored louder; the curve of the reaction climbed toward the critical level. At 3:25 p.m. the pile "went critical," i.e., a self-sustained chain reaction started. Its mass was still silent and motionless, but the physicists knew that a new kind of fire was burning inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Navigator | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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