Word: digging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some day the country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson...
...plain, the grain elevators are plain, the rivers are plain, the sunflower is a plain flower. The highways are unpaved. Indelible is the stamp of the Kansas road on the transcontinental touring car that strikes rain between St. Joseph and Denver and the driver must get out to dig the clay from the mudguards so that the wheels can turn round...
...liberty exactly as they see fit. In many jurisdictions a man who has a family can no longer mortgage his house, which he has bought with his own money, nor spend his own wages in such away as to leave his wife homeless or destitute. Likewise a man cannot dig a well on his own land so as to drain off another man's well unless there is some sufficient cause for his doing...
...fuel upon Booth's feeling against Lincoln Sr. Rather the reverse: that the son of Lincoln was the rival Booth could least brook. Such a suggestion might not be far-fetched in view of Booth's capacity for insensate passion, but it would be cruel now, and futile, to dig sorrow afresh from its burial under the years...
...supplies and paraphernalia and had established a base camp from which the final run for the top could be made. Two hundred yaks, nearly 500 native porters and 11 white men made up the caravan which worked its way from one supply camp to another and finally had to dig in, itself. A camp rapidly grew up and the yaks and porters were left there while a few of the best porters continued on to the 22,000 foot level. Curiously enough, one of the porters who reached the high level carrying a 40-pound burden the same...