Word: dig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...walks of life took spades in hand and dug 13 miles of zigzag trenches in parks, playgrounds, lawns, vacant lots. The rich rode in limousines to shady Lazienki Park, were bowed out by chauffeurs, pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from shops and offices to dig by night. Musicians' guilds and actors' associations were given schedules for digging. Alexandra Pilsudska, widow of Poland's great Josef Pilsudski, broke ground. The Mayor of Warsaw dug, and so did Premier Slawoj Skladkowski, right in his own front yard (he directed workers to dig in the lawn, avoiding...
...help laconic Mr. Smith dig into NLRB, Speaker Bankhead appointed two 100% New Dealers, Massachusetts' Arthur Healey and Utah's Abe Murdock; and two 100% Republicans, Ohio's Harry Rouzohn and Indiana's Charles Halleck...
There are only two things to do when a forest fire gets out of hand: run for your life or dig in. In the Dutch Canyon region, Brothers George, Cliff and Art Kittleson and an employe called Smoky saved their lives by scooping a deep hole, burying themselves all but their faces, lying there for seven hours while the holocaust passed over...
...statement of Rear Admiral Byrd, "We discovered a seam of coal down there that we think is sufficient to supply the United States for 100 years or more. This seam of coal is ... exposed along the slope of a high mountain range so that it is not necessary to dig...
...hopping westward to the island of Umnak, Dr. Hrdlicka turned up another rich find of oblong, pre-Aleut skulls, which he sent home to the Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the coast. In a nearby burial ground, girdled by stony mountains, Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert...