Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type of security, a security which is dynamic, not static-a security which rests in intelligence not in forts. And in the fact that intelligence must be combined with aviation I find some cause for hope. It requires more intellect to operate an airplane than to dig a trench or shoot a rifle...
Where, in the name of Yale, did you dig up that cinematicritic who wrote the notice on San Francisco...
...passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small businessman, the investments set aside for old age-other people's money-these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in. . . . Private enterprise became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise. . . . "The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government...
...poverty-stricken farmers in all 48 States, this boom meant undreamed of profits. A barrel of potatoes costs about $2 to grow, another 75?^ to dig, pack, ship. Prices were so low on the Eastern Shore last year that desperate farmers hijacked and destroyed truckloads of other growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...
...plants but simply sucks at them. It makes no attempt to escape from sparrows, its greatest enemy. The female damages orchards and vineyards by using her sawtooth appendage to carve grooves in which to lay her eggs. When the larvae hatch from the eggs, they fall to the ground, dig in, attach themselves to a root at which they suck for 17 years. When the proper time arrives, they come out at dusk, climb a tree. In order to get out of the old shell in which it passed its infancy, the insect takes a firm toehold on the bark...