Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole is one of the world's lowest, but after the age of 45, Americans cannot expect to live as long as their contemporaries in many other countries, e.g., England, Canada, The Netherlands, and especially Denmark and Norway. Statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. wondered why. A dig into the records shows that American men have more fatal accidents and more heart disease. American women have more accidents, more diabetes...
Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...
Just when these people lived, Dr. Carter does not know. He suspects that they may date back to the warm period, 150,000 years ago, before the last advance of the glaciers. So he urges anthropologists to dig much deeper, to search for older deposits for the first remains of American...
...loved Him-even more than she loved her lover. "I believe there's a God-I believe the whole bag of tricks; there's nothing I don't believe, they could subdivide the Trinity into a dozen parts and I'd believe. They could dig up records that proved Christ had been invented by Pilate to get himself promoted and I'd believe just the same. I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love...
...point in the Big Green's favor is that injuries have had more of a weakening effect on Harvard than on Dartmouth. Every time McLaughry has lost a man through injuries this season, he has been able to dig up a talented sophomore who can perform as well as, if not better than, the original...