Word: dig
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...large Roman altar and the torso of a figure of heroic size. At one point was found a very massive wall which seems to be certainly Hebrew, but owing to the great depth of the debris and the late date of the discovery it was not possible to dig out any considerable portion of this wall the present year. At several points on the summit the clearings reached the rock, but at no point did such clearing cover more than a few square feet. The city wall is over two and a quarter miles in circuit, and it is confidently...
...football number, admirably illustrates the will to believe. The cover is flamboyant with breezy confidence; scripture unschooled by higher criticism is called to witness in our behalf at the outset, and the tail-piece is a convincing vision of prophecy fulfilled,--a fulfillment heralded by many a timely dig in the intervening pages at our "dearest foe." Apart from the local color cast upon it by the shadow of coming events, the number strikes us as no more or less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate...
...leave of absence for the past two years and was conducting excavations at Gizeh for this University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and was also under appointment as director of the Harvard Exploration of Samaria in Palestine. The delay at Constantinople in allowing a permit to dig at Samaria made it uncertain whether the application would be granted or not. In October last the permit was finally issued, and the actual work will probably begin next spring. The spring and summer are unfavorable for work in upper Egypt, owing to the heat, and it is therefore hoped that...
...hoped that the school may some time be able to carry on excavations. In the absence of permission to dig, the school visited the sites where others have been digging, English, Germans, and Austrians...
...however, during the vault, raise the hand, which was uppermost at first, to a point higher on the pole, or raise the hand, which was undermost to a point on the pole above the other hand. "Any competitor who uses a pole without a spike, shall be allowed to dig a hole not more than one foot in diameter at the take off, in which to plant his pole...