Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report condemned most railroads for not employing men with sufficient skill, imagination and curiosity to dig out the basic facts concerning operational costs, and claimed that the industry "has not been willing to give men the time and the staffs required for such work...
...million for economic aid to the Middle East and stave off Communist aggression in the Middle East with U.S. troops impair this new doctrine's effectiveness? "I certainly have never quarreled with the right of the Congress of the U.S. to examine every proposal seriously, earnestly, and dig to the bottom of it, and contemplate its possible effects," said the President. But "time is important in this area because we know of certain developments going on that are not certainly in our best interests...
Having covered and re-covered the standard operatic repertory on LPs, e.g., ten complete and currently available Pagliaccis, seven Aïdas, five Butterflys, record companies have begun to dig for lesser known works. One of the happiest recent finds: Puccini's one-acter, II Tabarro, on an excellent RCA Victor LP. This somberly lyric tale of jealousy, betrayal and murder on a Seine River barge is sung with power and intensity by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Soprano Margaret Mas and Tenor Giacinto Prandelli, strongly backed by the Rome Opera's chorus and orchestra under Veteran Conductor Vincenzo Bellezza...
...have lost our pleasure in reading. More and more young people undertake the professional study of literature; fewer and fewer like to read. It is my impression that the act of reading, which used to be an appetite and a passion, is now thought to be rather 'infra dig' in people of intelligence; students make it a habit to settle on a very few authors, or, if possible, one author, whom, they undertake to comprehend entirely and to make their own; or to wait until they can conceive a 'problem' suitable to their talents before they read...
Direct U.S. private investments in Latin America-the dollars that build factories, dig mines, plant crops or drill for petroleum-rose by a record-smashing $500 million in 1956. Last week Washington's statisticians, tentatively casting up sums for the year, estimated the total investment to date at $7 billion-probably enough to keep Latin America the area most favored by U.S. investors.* Adding in U.S. Government loans of more than $1 billion and indirect private investments, e.g., bank loans, stocks and bonds, the experts put the grand total of all U.S. funds invested in Latin America...