Word: digged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meet the annual bill. Last week the Londoner still had his bacon & eggs, the Parisian his pain beune. But Englishmen were at last beginning to see that Master-Farmer David Lloyd George was right: they must plow their pasturage and "dig for victory." Seeking also to cut home consumption not only of food but of nonessential articles, the Board of Trade restricted by two-thirds the supply of 600 such items as brassieres, suspenders, pajamas, floral waters and pomades; hoped thereby to release factories and labor (see p. jj) for war production. At the same time, London's posh...
Mister, you sure started something when you wrote that article in TIME, March 18, titled "Innocent in Wall Street," in which you mentioned the ad in the Wall Street Journal in which I advertised for a partner with $15,000 to help me dig a well and me getting in a mess with...
Anyhow, the well is dug, and she is in, for one of the prettiest bullies I ever did dig anywhere in more than twenty five years, I am enclosing a picture showing what she looked like going over the top and so the nice folks that were worried and wrote me can quit worrying because everything turned out just exactly right. And I sure want every one of them to know that I thoroughly appreciate their kind thoughts toward...
...variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
This year the CRIMSON is particularly anxious to get photographers who are interested in writing news and feature articles to go with their pictures. The competition will lay emphasis on ability to dig up news and organize illustrated feature articles on subjects of University interest such as the graduate schools, the scientific departments, college organizations, and sports...