Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work between the covers is not far above this level. With the exception of a clever dig at the Gen. Ed. Program's humanities courses, drawn by E. Wentworth, the cartoons are utterly witless. Two vignettes, one of a Roman chariot and one of a spotted cat, are the only really amusing drawings in the issue. The cat is Updike...
...chancellors must always sound warnings. To make Britain safe, said Butler, its people must 1) earn more from exports, 2) dig more coal, 3) recover their ancient spirit of economic adventure. To his countrymen, Butler recommended his own credo: "Do not be elated, never be depressed...
...wearing job. Said one Harlem junior-high-school teacher of his all-girl classes: "You've got to get between them before they start fighting-they don't just scratch; they dig in and bring away skin and meat." Said another instructor: "I have to fight to avoid sinking into the mire of their emotions." Said a Brooklyn science teacher: "I have to be 90% warden, 7% wet nurse and 3% teacher...
With five years of public ownership behind them, Britain's 5,000,000 trade unionists are openly skeptical of Whitehall's ability to dig more coal, grow more food, build more houses than private business can. "It's perfectly easy to draw up lists of industries to be nationalized," said wealthy George Strauss, who, as Attlee's Minister of Supply, nationalized British Steel. "But that's not the Socialist approach-it's the escapist approach...
...Edinburgh a brilliant professor of anatomy named Dr. Knox. Like most anatomists of the day, he lacked enough corpses for his demonstrations. Like his colleagues, he was forced to buy them from body snatchers. Two snatchers. Burke and Hare, decided it was easier to murder their "subjects" than to dig them up. They were caught and brought to trial. Dr. Knox had enough influence to escape trial, and to this day it is not sure that he 'knew what Burke and Hare were up to; but his name became a curse among the poor, he was ostracized...