Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every other State, the New Jersey Legislature fussed and fiddled over a stack of legislative trivialities with which its critics contend it should not concern itself. Passed were bills to license barbers, to accept Grover Cleveland's birthplace at Caldwell as public property, to register lodge emblems. Though it ducked a sales tax and beat a horse racing & betting bill. its more important enactments followed a national trend. As in three other States, it required automobiles to be equipped with safety glass in the near future. As in 33 other States, it took control of beer sales...
...open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling Broadway controversies. Had he been able, for example, as a senior, to supplement his thesis and tutorial stack-work with an intelligent course in modern literary trends and criticism he would probably never have to seek shelter in the almost religious regimen of the Book of the Month Club...
...down at the black oval table in the centre of the President's room just off the Senate lobby. He was still President of the U..S. with work to do. An enormous wall mirror reflected the drawn tired lines in his face as he hunched over a stack of bills laid before him. William McKinley (in bronze) glowered out of a corner. Down through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted on the ceiling was fixed upon the grey Hoover head as it bent to its task. Around the mosaic floor stood...
...beard for seven years, trying to thwart a checkmate. Occasionally he would stride over to a railroad map of the U. S. on which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell, I don't see how those fellows have the face to talk the way they do. But you can say anything if you keep a straight face...
...their early tours the Jubilee Singers earned $150,000 with which Jubilee Hall was built to replace the Union barracks. As the singers went on advertising the University, Fisk equipment grew until the first stack of spelling books and New Testaments, bought by selling for old iron the rusty handcuffs from Nashville's slavepens, became a legend. Now there are 25 well-equipped campus buildings at Fisk (not counting the nearby grocery store where students go to eat fried fish). Academically it has Class A rating...