Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN congressional investigators dig into the strategic stockpiling program, they will find plenty of things wrong with the $4 billion defense project. Preliminary checks have turned up inferior materials, loss through mishandling, loose specifications and possible fraud. Part of the blame lies with pork-barreling Congressmen, who insisted on protecting U.S. industries to the detriment of efficient buying abroad. But most of the shortcomings can be laid to bureaucratic bumbling...
...Grandma, what frantic eyes you have," said Red Riding Hood. "The better to dig you with, my dear." said the wolf. "And Grandma," said Red. "what a long nose you have." "Yeah." said the wolf, "it's a gasser." "And Grandma," said Red, "your ears are the most, to say the least." "How you do come on." said the wolf. "I know my ears aren't the greatest, but what're ya gonna do? Let's just say somebody goofed...
...Mystery of Matter. Matter is common stuff, but the scientists do not know what matter is. The more they dig into the problem, the more confused they get. Dr. Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prizewinner in physics, points out that light can behave as waves and also as particles. So can electrons, protons and larger chunks of matter...
...They dig up $15,000 to back his flight; Lindbergh puts in his own life savings of $2,000. There is also a practical incentive: the Orteig Prize of $25,000 for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris, either...
Preacher in the Cellar. The worst of all this, says Lynd, is that the superprofessionals themselves are often "half-educated or uneducated." Having taken John Dewey's anti-absolutism as the only true absolute, they feel little compulsion to dig into the wisdom of the past. Thus, "one hears the value of classical studies denounced by men whose understanding is obviously uncomplicated by any personal acquaintance with the classics. Emotional conditioning is held to be more important than intellectually acquired information-by persons whose private stocks of information come almost exclusively from the occupational texts which Educationists write...