Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every day, as long as I live, I am just going to keep on figureing that if it is against the law to advertise for a partner to dig a well, I sure am going to keep my own ideas. I am just a well digger, not a lawyer, but I sure figure that if it is against the law to advertise in a public newspaper half interest in an oil producing property, it sure as hell is also against the law to advertise half interest in a Greek restaurant. That sure would be tough on the Greeks, just like...
...Yankee is "a reasonably honest, good citizen, who obeys the laws-pretty well." Added the New York Herald Tribune: "A Connecticuter of the old line in a New York penthouse may have less of the 'old traditional Yankee perspective' than an immigrant who is still willing to dig stones out of the hillside pasture...
...success (and a potent budget-balancing aid) is his ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my millionaires." Down into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director-elect Francis Taylor of the Metropolitan...
...Suggestion is that isolated forts could be kept in place by frontal anchoring sheaths extending deep into the ground. Chances are that continuation of heavy fire could dig to any depth...
...gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau when he went home from revival meeting...