Word: hardpan
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Captain Wray gave "dig in" orders shortly before dusk. His men scraped through wet sand and mud to frozen hardpan in which they hacked out foxholes...
...charge of the work said that, after boring 35 feet, he found in one place a rock bottom, and in another a hardpan formation, which is a mixture of clay, gravel and sand, and makes a very good foundation. The ground that will be under the heavy steeple of the proposed chapel has been tested to the satisfaction of the foreman. So, the steeple will be able to be built on the corner of the new chapel nearest Sever, as the design calls...
...five pieces in verse are as various in form as in subject. The author of "The Pickle of the Past," with a frank disclaimer of anything that makes for sentimentalism, gets down to the hardpan of wholesome boyish sentiment in a way that ought to delight his contemporaries; as it certainly will their fathers and uncles. "Cragan the Spalpeen" shows touches of Celtic with and spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny...