Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Oxford, Arthur Kinsolving went to Amherst to be, at 25, rector of Grace Church and director of campus religious activities. In his six years at Amherst he guided no fewer than 56 men into the ministry. Then Boston's Trinity Church, the granite Romanesque pile where Phillips Brooks had risen to fame, called him. He accepted, cut the job's $15,000 salary to $10,000 because he was a bachelor. He plunged into Trinity's manifold activities -40 parish organizations, with a budget of $130,000 a year, called on as many...
When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife...
...primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...
...nuisance. On the day they assassinated the Tsar, a boatload of his pet Palmolive Soap was ploughing the grey Pacific, Vladivostok-bound, By the time it reached Japan the Russians were too busy to wash. The Japanese, no great shakes as soap consumers themselves, let the cargo pile up storage fees for three years. Finally, Soapman Johnson got a tip: Australia needed soap. To Sydney went the lot. Australians snapped it up at 30? a cake...
...left wing, scored the goal which clinched the Tiger victory, with only 55 seconds remaining in the game. The Crimson's lone tally came in the opening minutes of the last stanza when Captain Bill Coleman took Skip Ervin's pass and slipped it into the net after a pile up around the Princeton goal, trying the game...