Word: digs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present measures of the government for preparedness are denounced as misdirected. Of what value are powerful armies and navies, it asks, when we have no minimum standard of living? It proceeds by demanding an elimination of all graft, and an unlimited appropriation for educating alike the thousands who dig ditches and the scores who direct corporations. The author advocates "some good way of combining democratic distribution with efficient production in our great industries," failing completely to realize that the two are incompatible. It is just such things as these which mark the play to the grandstand. This article...
...black with crows hovering about in search of carion. A strapping young peasant girl, whom we found later in the day doing two men's work in the heavy fields, told us a moving tale of how German soldiers had forced her at the point of the bayonet to dig graves for their fallen dead...
...absence of prompt redress on the part of nature, it is suggested that the University bestir itself. A squad of doughty men with shovels to alter the topography of the slush piles, and to dig little trenches so that certain demi-lakes may empty themselves into oblivion, could still accomplish wonders. Days ago, the need for such a squad was "crying"; it is still acute...
...Huge finny forms of phosphorescence (that) ... .........caracole With the sea-horses on some eye-less shoal, Quickening the leafage of a wave-tombed tree." and "weeping stars," mourners with golden pelf";, and to dig the meaning from "Oh, wash her white as flowers are Before she lieth down and die, Oh wash her white...