Word: digging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth makes no friends in Cambridge, it is stupendously his own fault. I do not say that it is impossible for a Harvard student to go off by himself, dig a hole, lie down in it, and stay there--as he might not be able to do at a small college; I do say that those who affirm Harvard to be undemocratic or to value men for their money are either misinformed or defamatory. I could name plenty of men whom heaps of money did not save from social failure in Harvard College; and even more whom narrow means...
...other country has, as far as I know, any publication comparable with yours. It is a national asset of high value, especially as it is usually a long and difficult job to dig out of the ordinary American paper the news of importance and of more than local interest...
Never once did the committee come within four aces of averting a strike. It would have been infra dig for both operators and miners (accustomed to the intervention of U. S. Presidents, or, at the least, of Pennsylvania Governors) to lie down together at the behest of the local citizenry...
Meantime, anti-foreign feeling continued to run high in most of the eastern Provinces. Strikers remained out and a bloody clash took place between two Chinese factions at Canton. In the same place terrorists frightened the sexton of the foreign cemetery to flight by threatening to dig up the dead. In divers places stories of shots fired at foreign transports were reported and lost nothing in being recounted. Despite many difficulties, indications were that Chinese unrest was slowly ebbing...
...Saint Albans, England. A great gallery came out from London to see "Long" James Barnes, Open Champion of Great Britain (TIME, July 6), play a 36-hole match against Abe Mitchell, watched him hook, slice, dig, and go down to defeat 7 up and 6 to go, after winning only 3 holes...