Word: digged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves as they read despatches last week describing the theft of the body of Floyd Collins. The corpse had been on exhibition in a bronze and glass coffin in Crystal Cave, Ky., some seven miles from Sand Cave, where Collins died in 1925 after a 17-day effort to dig him out alive. Crystal Cave is owned by a Dr. Harry Thomas of Horse Cave. Ky. The admission price to see Floyd Collins...
...Herbert Clark Hoover said, "I do" (TIME, March 11). Several announcers were posted in and about the Slot, more along broad Karl Johans Gade, and a whole battery in Vor Frelsers Kirke, the hoary Church of Our Saviour, where booming Lutheran Bishop Lunde would ask, "Saa til sparger jeg dig, Olaf, for Gud's assym og. I denne Kristne forsamlings nerverelse. vil du have Martha som hos dig staar til din egtehustrn...
Even larger must be the mass that struck the-Province of Yenisei, Siberia, in 1908. The place had been a forest. It is now a bare area churned up for several miles. Russian scientists, led by L.A. Kulik, tried vainly to dig up even fragments of the meteorite. They were buried too deeply. This year the Russians may explore again...
...might ruin Lissa's career as a lady and as a singer. Quick in emergency, she packed Lissa off to a friendly parson in "Noo Yo'k;" and ordered Hagar to keep her mout' shet if caught and questioned about the murder. But Hagar knew the prying prosecutor would "dig and dance and circle" until he had wrung from her the whole story involving Lissa, so she chose the quieter...
...tusk was found sticking in a river bank, which was 200 feat high, at that point. Half of the tusk was protruding from the bank, the other half being wedged between stratas of rock, as was discovered when excavations were made in the attempt to dig it up. This work took several days, as care had to be taken not to injure the tooth, which, although cracked in places, was otherwise in excellent condition...