Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carlton then adjourned the meeting to count the Flatto proxies. At 5 p. m. he announced an adjournment to the following day. Next day, as officials continued to dig through the Flatto proxies, the meeting was adjourned until this week. By this time Western Union's management, harried by Flatto threats to challenge every one of their proxies, diagnosed the most serious stockholders' revolt in their 88-year history as a "disease of the times...
...name down as the author of the music he is playing. Clinton does (and badly) Pine Top Smith's "Boogie Woogie Blues," and on the credit line in resplendent dignity is Larry Clinton. The band seems to reflect all this in its playing. It plays without any life, any dig. The soloists are all uniformly uninspired with the exception of the tenor man who occasionally works passably...
...Spanish border near Argeles-sur-Mer and St. Cyprien. They are enclosed by barbed wire, guarded every 20 feet by a Senegalese soldier. Inside the wire the camps are like some fantastically huge hobo jungle. Only a few refugees have roofs over their heads; the great majority dig holes in the sand and cover themselves with dirty sheets, blankets or coats they managed to carry out with them. Many sleep in the open, rain or shine. Icy sea winds blow the sand continually. Most of the refugees have developed conjunctivitis. Fuel in the large camps is scarce. Cooking is done...
...Germany last week continued to build more & more airplanes, Britain continued to dig deeper & deeper holes in which, to hide from them. > Lord Privy Seal Sir John Anderson, who actually is British Minister for Civilian Defense, announced in the House of Commons last week what the well-dressed British baby will wear in the next war. Sir John said the Government has ordered 1,400,000 little gas helmets which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks...
Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...