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...Mather was conducted to the excavation ditch where he spent half a day groping in the swamp ooze to determine whether the skull was complete and whether all the vertebrae of the skeleton were there. He was convinced at once that the find was a mastodon of huge proportions, unusually complete in all its parts. He assisted in naming and arranging the bones that had been found, and in giving directions for the excavation work which was done by workmen with their hands alone in order to avoid injuring the skeleton...
...general conference of Miners' Federation delegates in London at which A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, bitter-ender Communist secretary of the Miners' Federation, reputedly admitted that the miners may have to accept a lower wage than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated by the Eight Hours Act (TIME, July 12 et seq.) which is the keystone of Premier Baldwin's anti-strike program. ¶ Learned that ten Church of England Bishops and twelve Nonconformist dignitaries had drawn...
Their language is lowest Cockney, guttural and larded with strange terms of the wayside. Their occupations, when pursued, are raising scrubby ponies (they milk the mares and sell the foals to tinkers, small farmers, etc.); working intermittently for the Crown, usually at ditch cleaning or road-making; collecting wild birds' eggs for city oologists. The women go into the towns in rags, carrying their grubby offspring to excite pity and alms from passing motorists. The men, for the most part, loaf about, in and under their wagons...
...Congress to demobilize the Continental army, George Washington made a tour of inspection of New York waterways, laid out a route for a canal linking the western frontier with the Atlantic seaboard. In 1817-25. Governor De Witt Clinton of New York dug the Erie Canal ("Clinton's Ditch") from Troy to Buffalo. It was later found that his engineers had followed, inch for inch, the Washington route. More lately, the Erie Canal has been modernized as far west as Syracuse, where it joins the Oswego Canal to form the main New York State Barge Canal...
With the spring sun beginning to evaporate the awful ditch-bilge into which Morocco is annually transformed by the winter rains, there emerged into modest headlines that fierce and intractable Riffian, the Amir Muhammad ibn Abd-el-Karim...