Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most daring and presumptuous thing about Wolf was his ambition to pour all of American experience through the filter of his own consciousness. All his novels are intensely autobiographical, self-centered as no other American writer has dared to be. And yet Wolfe claimed for them a universal relevance that no other American writer dared to claim...
There were contributing reasons. The United Mine Workers' hodge-podge District 50, which tries to organize everybody from shoe clerks to clam diggers, had roused A.F.L. leaders' bitter complaints that it was poaching in their fields. Now Lewis was free to pour into District 50 the $200,000-plus which U.M.W. has been paying yearly to the A.F.L. treasury. In District 50, headed by John's 58-year-old brother, Denny, the' Great Man had a juggernaut to propel, if he chose, toward a third major labor organization...
However, Langdell hung on grimly, and by 1880 he had won approval for his methods. When, in 1882, a flood of donations began to pour in, enabling the school to undertake a program of large scale physical expansion, enrollments shot up, and Langdell had successfully launched the third "golden...
...year by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports for $9.11. Most of the gifts are tied to specific departments and projects, ranging from the Botanical Museum's Oakes Ames Fund for Orchidology to Stillman Infirmary's Free Bed Fund of the Class of 1868. They continue to pour in every year, both in gifts for capital and gifts for immediate use. Last year's capital gifts added up to nearly six million dollars, and the gifts for immediate use totalled better than two million. Some of the donations, such as certain library gifts, arrive yearly. Some are carefully...
Behind London's Fleet Street, off bombed-out Fetter Lane, stands a terraced architectural absurdity known as Geraldine House. It is the home of the world's first great tabloid-and still its biggest. Every weekday, 3,700,954 London Daily Mirrors pour from the presses of Geraldine House; every weekend they print 4,006,241 Sunday Pictorials. Each Mirror reflects the tabloid wizardry of Humpty-Dumptyish Harry Guy Bartholomew, who is as retiring as his paper is blatant...