Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directly converted to U.S. dollars but can be converted to still other currencies which TIME can use. On occasion, Ryus has considered some weird and wonderful schemes to realize at least some dollars from "pazooties." "I particularly remember one idea of several years ago - to soak up a whole pile of blocked Dutch guilders by buying cheeses and bringing them...
...doctor about his private life. You would simply pick the best doctor." Last week his Kaffeeklatsch-and-candor campaign paid off with a 6-to-1 victory in the Democratic primary. Jimmy is almost sure to win in November, unless, as often happens in soap operas, the problems pile up again...
...records and statistics, but the students themselves. Describing her year's work, she cites the spring as the busiest time; "there is a steady crescendo of activity from mid-years on," she says. And yet it is this period that Mrs. Robinson likes best, when theses are due and pile up in her office, when honors records must be prepared, and when mark-seeking students either line up far out into the Holyoke. House hallway or just swarm wildly into Room 8. For it is then, she says, that "I can finally see some results coming out of my work...
...Most pills on prescription are ordered taken three times a day, and this "is about two doses too many for the average patient to remember," writes Philadelphia's Dr. Benjamin Wheeler Jenkins in GP. The pills are not taken, and pile up on bathroom shelves. His suggestion: more pills of the repeat-action type, to give a day's dosage in one dollop...
...rich-quick newcomers. But many independent automakers were forced to take them on, and now they are in trouble. Said a Chicago dealer: "The weak sisters shouldn't have been in the business in the first place. They came in during the good years and made their pile, and now they're squawking...