Word: pile
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intercollegiate games, that each individual is given a better chance, and the "esprit de corps" of the University greatly increased. Apparently, our elders have little faith in this kind of organization. They would have each man go his way, as separate from the rest as each grain in a pile of sand...
...public as to the essential facts of community needs and government results. Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will put poison in a baby's milk, pile garbage on his neighbor's doorstep, put his hands in his neighbor's pocket, when his neighbor is looking...
...previously announced the dam is being built on the present site of the Craigie bridge, and its total length when completed will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 340 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pile foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. The height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean low water, about the present level of the street at the Cambridge end of Craigie bridge...
...injuries were received in various ways: some in open play, some in the mechanical drill of "tackling the dummy," but a very great proportion occurred in the "bunch" or "pile" which forms after a player running the ball is tackled. The surgeons very quickly got in the way of watching every pile with great interest and apprehension. The exact proportion between the injuries received in the open and in the pile, however, is not controlled by accurate figures. The number of injuries received in the games and in practice were proportionately about the same...
...collar bone.--Partial and complete dislocations of the outer end of the collar bone were extremely numerous and were received in a variety of ways, some while tackling in the open, but the greater number of them were caused by the players having one shoulder caught in the pile with a mass of men fall in upon the unprotected shoulder. In but two cases was the dislocation a complete one, and in one of those cases the player received it very early in the game and finished a twenty-minute half with the collar bone and the scapula entirely separated...