Word: pillared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight natives formed a circle around the man who became a pillar of fire, "repelled him with precautionary blows of the lance . . . so as not to make mortal wounds." widening and contracting the circle, shouting at the top of their lungs, while the flames soared 15 feet high. The only part of the prisoner that did not crumble to ashes was his eyeballs...
Some 5,000 persons, one by one, climbed into the driver's seat, took hold of the steering wheel, put right foot on the accelerator, left foot on the floorboards, looked at the green traffic light in the pillar before them. The scene was not a highway but the psychological laboratory of Massachusetts State College at Amherst, or the 1935 Boston automobile show, or the 1934 Eastern States Exposition at Springfield, Mass. When the person being tested put his foot on the accelerator, the cam of a motor selector switch was set revolving, turning the green light to amber...
...Shanghai that sturdy pillar of the U. S. business colony, Frank Jay Raven, master of the "Raven Interests" (banking, real estate, insurance) which had assets of $70,000,000 as recently as last December, had just been shaken down. He blamed the collapse of his American-Oriental Banking Corp., much patronized by missionaries, the U. S. Marines and Shanghai prostitutes, on President Roosevelt's artificial jacking up of the price of silver, on which everything turns in China. "I am financially broke, but we are protecting our creditors," said Mr. Raven. "All my resources are going into liquidation...
...Clothier's gross revenue from $20,000,000 in 1933 to $23,000,000 last year, reported earnings of $331,000, best since 1931. Active in forming the American Retail Federation for binding retailers into a national organization (TIME, April 29), he is regarded in Philadelphia as a pillar of the Chamber of Commerce and Republican Party, was boomed last year as GOP candidate for Governor...
...cultured churchman indulging in the old chestnut game of dragging supposed Catholic inconsistencies from the fires of bigotry. In his article, he claims that Greek and Roman priests exercised more despicable charlatanry than the Palestinian dragomen, that a Franciscan monk pointed out in "Mary's house" the actual pillar at which the Virgin stood on the day of the Annunciation...