Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice by begetting seven children, had neatly stacked good golden wheat in the front yard. A flag flapped atop the stack and a government threshing machine stood behind...
...Battle Force, followed by nine of the nation's 15 capital ships. New Mexico and Mississippi looked the most impressive with their modern, heavy forward fighting bridges. But the West Virginia, with outmoded masts like inverted wire-work waste baskets, sported a white E on her stack to show that she still surpassed all upstarts in her division in engineering efficiency. The show was over when the train, the "dungaree navy" came by, with the old Langley, the Navy's first carrier, closing the rear file with superannuated sauciness...
Pageant King Frank Barton, ex-Culver, ex-Princeton, ex-president of the Cotton Exchange, rose with some misgivings from his gaudy throne atop a stack of cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress...
...road outside Faribault, Minn., one night last week Walter Magee, St. Paul contractor, saw automobile headlights blink four times. He stopped his car, lifted out two cardboard boxes full of money and drove off leaving them in the middle of the highway. To the stack of cash was attached a note...
...College booklets on concentration and distribution strongly urge candidates for distinction in the various fields to elect at least one course "primarily for Graduates." If this is meant seriously, it should be called to the attention of the stack authorities, with a view to removing one of the reasons why Widener and its temperamental staff is a major irritant to a capable undergraduate trying to do the little advanced work that the teaching authorities urge him toward...