Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before he graduated from Dartmouth. There he dug hard into economics and taught a Sunday school class of twelve-year-old girls. In his senior year he pleased his social-minded father, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., by winning a fellowship which exempted him from examinations and permitted him to dig into the fine arts as well. Just before graduation in 1930 he said: "I don't claim to have sprouted wings. . . . But I have de veloped a growing enthusiasm and appreciation [for art] which will stay with...
...mysterious telephone call reached a Sydney newspaper office. Reporters with lanterns, ropes and shovels piled into a car, dashed through the night the 500 miles to Melbourne. Trembling with excitement they reached the edge of a suburban city park, and following a hastily scrawled treasure map, began to dig. A shovel struck something hard. It was the Emden's bell...
...Columbia recovered four of them. The touchdown came in the second period, when Columbia's Halfback Al Barabas cut around Stanford's right end and loped across the line standing up. Center Newt Wilder kicked the extra point. From then on Columbia's job was to dig into the slime and hold against Stanford's inexhaustible reserves. Columbia not only held, but turned Stanford back from the 1-yd. line where Halfback Ed Brominski scooped up a Stanford fumble. In the last few minutes the rain again helped Columbia. Stanford tried to catch up with...
That was the end of George Christian's happy days. Calvin Coolidge came. Senators Walsh and Wheeler of Montana between them began to dig into Teapot Dome, into Elk Hills, into the Ohio gang's speculations through the brokerage office of Mr. Ungerleider, into its peculations from the Veterans' Bureau, the Interior Department, the Alien Property Custodian's office. The gang went its way, back to Ohio or to jail. George Christian, by now a deserving Republican, was left in Washington by the receding wave of history...
...Manhattan Commodities Exchange reached 40⅞?, the highest in three years. Of last year's world production of 160,000,000 oz., 102,000,000 oz. were mined by six U. S. companies (American Smelting & Refining, American Metal, U. S. Smelting, Cerro de Fasco, Anaconda, Phelps Dodge) who dig silver as a by-product of copper mining. Most of the U. S. output is usually exported to China and India. Normally stocks of silver in Manhattan run from...