Word: digged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long, however. The Henley flags were scarcely 100 yards distant and Bassett reciprocated the Unions' move by an equal advance in pace which soon squared matters. There was nothing to do now but dig and trust to luck and both sets of oarsmen taxed their reserve power to the limit in those final seconds. All to no purpose, however, for the two prows cut the line at the same instant, registering a dead heat...
...such is the case, whose fault is it? Some people think that most students are too lazy or too indifferent to "dig" for knowledge. Perhaps there would be less indifference if the instructors were obliged--as are the students to "make good or get out." THOMAS C. HOWARD '25 April...
Miss Stockley's picture of the people in Rhodesia is equally as fine as her description of the land in which they live. They are a group of outcast English men and women; a hard drinking, excitement seeking lot; each of whom is hoping that some day he may dig a golden fortune from the soil. They represent a wide variety of types, and yet on them all the veldt has its spell, and instead of being normal energetic human beings, they are lethargic lovable neerdowell...
...like to dig into stories of work and exploration, come in and see "The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State", by Henry M. Stanley! The work is in two volumes, was published Harper & Bros...
...proof that Pharoah's body was really in the tomb. "No, Sir," replied Mr. MacNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, "the Government is not aware that the body of his late Majesty is in the tomb!" Another wag solemnly inquired whether any request had come from Egyptians to dig among the tombs of British Kings and Queens in Westminster Abbey, and what reply would be made to it? A disgusted Under-Secretary merely glared...