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Word: diggin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustle and interesting activity in and around the Harvard "quarters." A favorite pastime consisted in riding along the banks of the River Thames in order to catch the "time" of the Yale crews during their near at hand. Your correspondent was much at home in these "diggin's and doings" (every time I get a good start to write, I'm summoned by a nurse to be X-rayed, to have a needle injected into my arm, or to have my leg pulled on the first floor), having the previous year been captain of the freshman crew in which, believe...

Author: By Francis C. Woodman, | Title: Woodman Recalls Customs, Sports, Crimson of 'Eighties | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Second Front in Harlem | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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