Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion that Harvard dig more deeply into its corporate packet and allocate funds for a new purpose, is always suspect on grounds of practicability--however laudable the project may be. Occasionally, however, the phenomenon of a constructive reform which is also inexpensive, comes to light; and in the need for a Center of Romance Civilization, such a combination is to be found...
...freshness and beauty of these maps, painted in fresco-like colors with a new acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...
...main troubles with America, she finds, is that everything from cigarettes to perfume comes wrapped in cellophane, and to dig any article from this casing is nearly impossible...
Normal business in Barcelona was suspended as the Loyalist Government called out all men under 55 to dig trenches and build fortifications on the city's outskirts. Women replaced men in restaurants, hotels, gasoline stations, shops, factories. The U. S. cruiser Omaha was called from Villefranche, France, to pick up 30 U. S. citizens still remaining in the city, while the British cruiser Devonshire and destroyer Greyhound stood by off Barcelona ready to aid the exit of Britons...
Pressagent Straus runs his crew of ex-newsmen in PWA-Interior like a well-organized city staff, spurs them to dig up the kind of feature stories that newspapers are glad to get. Last week Mike Straus was pleased as punch over his latest job of pressagentry. From the slick, birch-lined radio studio atop the new Interior Building-only studio owned by any Government department-Mr. Ickes and assorted "Voices," hoofbeats, Indian drums, and aides broadcast a dramatization of Interior's 1938 report. Title of script was "My Dear Mr. President." Excerpt...