Word: digged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen, a shadow flickered?a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot. The date was the year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door...
...Oklahoman and Times, Oklahoma City. "Intrusion. . . . We will not dig out daily lists of taxes on everybody. . . . Exceptions. ... A few outstanding men and women...
...present controversy centering about Mr. Scopes has, therefore, hurled thoughtful society into profound discouragement and disillusion. Must all the intellectual battles of the last century be fought again? Does each age have to dig up old problems, solved long since, to add to the host of contemporary questions and feuds? Is it possible that a great mass, perhaps the majority of citizens of this so-called enlightened country in this day and age still believe in the literal interpretation of the account of creation in Genesis...
...deal of virtue in the old-fashioned variety of study. It is easier to sit in a comfortable chair and let the mind roam to the far reaches of a subject than it is to attempt to learn formulae, memorize passages from the great authors of the past or dig deep into abstract principles. But the former is profitless unless it rests on the firm foundations of the latter. It is true that the great inventions of the age are the children of imagination, but the automobile, the flying machine, the telephone would never have come into being...
...excavation is completed about two additional weeks are allowed for the completion of the foundations of each of the buildings. Since all the new structures are being constructed on filled-in ground it is necessary to be particularly careful in the foundation work. It is too expensive to dig down to solid rock for a foundation so the buildings will be supported partially on piles and partially on concrete caissons by a process called "floating...