Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-puzzling feature of lead poisoning is the way the cases always seem to pile up in the hot months, June to September, but hover near the vanishing point at other times. Various researchers have suggested parts of an answer that is now generally accepted, though some details are uncertain...
While Gilbert was shoveling coal in the mid-1920s, U.S. railroads began introducing the first diesel locomotives. Powered by an internal combustion engine, the diesels needed no firebox, no pile of coal-and no fireman. The diesels came onto U.S. railway tracks very gradually, and as late as 1937 fewer than 1% of the nation's locomotives were diesels. In that year the Brotherhood of Firemen foresightedly negotiated a contract with major railroads calling for two-man train crews. Fire or no fire, there was to be a fireman aboard...
...pile of Italian Renaissance buildings huddled on a sweeping, 500-acre campus, Emory has 4,200 students, one-third of them women. Graduate students set the pace, and sports are played down, giving Emory a bookish sobriety. Last fall it beat down in the courts a Georgia law threatening its tax-exempt status if it integrated. This fall it expects to enroll half a dozen Negroes, including Hamilton Holmes, the University of Georgia's first male Negro graduate, who will become Emory's first Negro medical student...
Architecturally, Oxford's Balliol College is a Victorian Gothic pile of no great distinction; in vintage its statutes are junior to Merton and University colleges. Yet it sits at the head of Oxford's intellectual table-a proud hatchery of Prime Ministers, archbishops, cardinals and viceroys. Of Balliol's 400-odd students, 20% regularly win first-class honors on final exams-a record unmatched by any other Oxford college, not even haughty Magdalen...
...side of the boat wake. In the men's division, the skier enters the course at 30 m.p.h. for his first pass and at 32, 34, and 36 m.p.h. after that until he misses a buoy. Any skier who has successfully navigated the course at these speeds continues to pile up consecutive buoys by running through on tow lines shortened in six foot increments...