Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Byrd made some dazzling statements : "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...
...Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch them digging in my back yard themselves at night since I had my visions...
...sees "19th century philology" as harming scholarship by "burying the young student in 'research' before he knew what he was after. He was to dig it out (blind, ham-strung, as blacks in a diamond mine...
While a few M. P.s groaned "ohhh," there was no really important dissent. Every M. P. and most of his constituents knew that the reasons why Britons were going to have to dig down deeper into their pockets this year than last were to be found in Adolf Hitler's moves on the Continent. Best expression of the British man-in-the-street's reaction to the Hitler budget appeared on a newspaper handbill: "We Can Take...
...personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about the back-bone of Chick's band...