Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday is racing day in Santiago, and no fooling. Winter & summer, wet or dry, thousands pile out to the plebeian Hipódromo in the morning, and, pausing only for a sandwich, migrate across town to bet away the afternoon at the slightly tonier Hipico. Earlier in the present Chilean winter, when lack of rainfall slowed hydroelectric plants and forced the capital to go on daylight saving time, fans sat stoically through the 8 a.m. race in utter darkness (newspapers suggested that the ponies carry lanterns...
Faber Castle in Stein, Germany, a great, ugly stone pile, is a house that German lead pencils built. The Fabers still live at Faber Castle, but in a former guesthouse, still manufacture pencils on the grounds, but mostly for the Military Government. Since November the castle has housed the foreign pencils and typewriters of the world's press corps covering the Nürnberg trials. Last week the frenzied work, the legendary drinking bouts were over. To one last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in Nürnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief Judgment Day reopening (Sept...
...representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, a group of scientists announced last week that atomic power for industrial use would cost only 23% more than power from coal at the current U.S. East Coast price of $7 a ton to power companies. A 75,000-kilowatt pile of the Hanford type, adapted for power production and using natural uranium, could be built...
There was this load of general supplies he'd gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market...
...financial strength. But an analysis of these endowments raises the question of whether these gifts, generous as they are, will tide the University over the immediate emergencies of the next few years-whether Harvard had better look the gift horse in the face, lest the pretty toys pile up and the petted child starve...