Word: digging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, May 10 et seq.) and the long drawn out nagging coal strike which began at the same time and dwindled to a close TIME, Nov. 29) without ever being formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers struck during the general strike and 750,000 miners remained out until the last bitter weeks of the coal strike? To answer these unpopular questions, Chancellor Churchill sat down four square on his facts last...
...without any family tradition. The seed of their difficulty, as of Russia's, was the so sudden liberation and enrichment of their peasant forbear by his aristocratic master at the Emancipation. The Russian bear did not learn to dance in a generation. In two it forgot how to dig for roots and nourishment...
...disastrous and deadening effects on some men as teachers no one who has suffered under the teacher-pedant will need much convincing. to expect a man to be a research worker as well as a teacher is about as logical as to demand that a goldsmith should also dig the gold he fashions. With the profoundest respect for Linguistics and for those possessing that aptitude, one is compelled to admit that it is a highly specialized study, and many a man possessing a wide knowledge of English Literature and a sincere appreciation of its beauty has lived and died...
...minority interests in the Ford Motor Co. to Henry and Edsel Ford in 1919 for $100,000,000 were underestimated by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Wilson Administration. Hence, the Government wants Mr. Couzens, the Dodge descendants and a half dozen others to dig into their pockets and send back $34,277,253.48 to the U. S. Treasury. The defense attorneys argue that the Government ought to keep its word, having once placed an estimate on their clients' profits. The public will be deprived of some illuminating bits of finance by the agreement of both sides...
...holding of political meetings in churches. Said he: "This would have been bad for the Anti-Saloon League in the days that are gone. But when has the Catholic Church ever permitted churches to be used for such purposes?" Here we have a criticism of Mexican law, a sly dig at the Anti-Saloon League and a fervent affirmation of the spotless honor of the Church-all in two sentences. Bishop Kelley is a worthy antagonist for Mexico's special pleaders...