Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hour exams, term papers, and the validity of the University's testing system will receive the opening dig of a current Council probe tonight at 9:45 o'clock when Richard L. Hanford '49, chairman of the Council sub-committee on hour exams, and his cohorts, Sherman M. Funk '50 and Warren G. Vander Mass '48 discuss the problem over WHRV...
...flowers grow in Sains-en-Gohelle. The town, the houses and the people are grey. The miners who dig coal from the earth seem to bring some of the earth's blackness and dourness with them when they go home from the pit heads. Through this region, in the Pas-de-Calais, the wallowing armies of World War I swayed back & forth in the mud, and all around are historic names: Arras, Lens, Cambrai, Douai, Vimy Ridge. No flowers grow in Sains, but in season they can be picked from the fields and hedgerows outside, and there are usually...
Last fortnight, her 2,500-word report on the Princess Elizabeth wedding was dashed off in time to make the London Evening Standard's early afternoon edition and the New York Herald Tribune's morning edition (TIME, Dec. 1). It was a mood piece with one notable dig at the Labor government. Her jab was about a huge national savings advertisement sign opposite Westminster Abbey: "An imaginative administration would surely have blanketed it for this...
During the winter months, the Club uses a cabin on Mount Washington as a base for ice-climbing and skiing operations. And, at frequent intervals, the members dig out their maps and ferret out new heights to conquer...
...grandfather's fortune has already been dispersed; his father's is locked up in Canada, where Rawhide Jim retired in an anti-New Deal huff in 1939. With only $53,570 a year in pay and allowances to run the London Embassy, Lew is forced to dig deep into his own savings...