Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canals, railroads and highways throughout the continent froze over or were blocked with drifting snow. Ships in the North and Baltic Seas and English Channel scuttled to port. While adults labored to dig Europe out, and to distribute food, coal and Christmas cheer over damaged communication systems, children were delighted. In London, for the first time in ten years, there was enough snow for snowballs, and at Versailles there was skating on the Grand Canal. Casualties: 200 dead. Most inexcusable casualty: the freezing to death of ten German-Jewish refugees in a camp on the German-Polish border...
Every year at least 250 trusting students in Chem B dig their last dime from their wallets and put it through a myriad of chemical tortures. The final product is 250 little silver balls, worth 3 cents apiece being all the silver there ever was in the dimes. Then all this rich metal is handed docilely ever to the authorities, who realize about $300 every century on the deal...
...parties to "cooperate to prove that Democracy can function to protect itself as efficiently as a Dictatorship." Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, while admitting "many mistakes of omission and commission," emphasized that His Majesty's Government did distribute 38,000,000 gas masks to the public, helped dig trenches in which 1,000,000 Britons could have huddled during air raids. The existing trenches and many more are now to be lined and roofed...
...reasonably entertaining, Suez shows Tyrone Power as Ferdinand de Lesseps, successively overcoming the obstacles provided by the climate, Napoleon III, his love for the Empress Eugénie (Loretta Young), his sense of responsibility toward a towheaded waif (Annabella), and the apathy of the British Government, in order to dig his big ditch from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean...
Filled with nitrogen, the torpedo-shaped capsule will, according to Grover Whalen, remain until our progeny's progeny dig it up. They are to find out about it by straying across one of many Books of Records of the capsule which will be mailed next week to libraries all over the globe. There has been no comment as yet from New Haven...