Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well oriented by the requisite ten years, of experience in the same field. This friend can save him from an unwise choice even after it has been made. The new graduate is not abandoned if the square peg of his aspirations should find itself in a round hole...
...There was only one possible thing to do," he continued, "in order to save the men, and that was to raise the boat. Many suggestions were sent in to the rescue party, asking them to cut a hole in the side of the submarine, and give the men diving suits in which to rise to the surface. Little did they know that at least three hours is required to put a man in a diving suit and instruct him in the use of it. By this time enough water would have poured through the hole to fill the entire ship...
...anchor. The kind of thing that can happen to them when least expected happened last week aboard the aircraft carrier Langley, at her dock in San Diego, Calif. Other ships of war in the harbor heard an explosion, saw a sheet of flame. Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge. Three sailors who had been working in a launch slung from the Langley's davits, struggled in the water...
Restoration of the British pound to par required titanic sacrifices and was a sort of financial hole in one. France has no more than aimed at the British score, content with mere de facto stabilization of the franc (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Therefore Signer Mussolini did well, last week, when he pocketed proud hopes of setting the lira up beside the pound. Italy, a young kingdom with cheap labor for its chief resource, cannot match an accomplishment which is straining even the strong sinews of the British Empire...
...first anniversary of the death of Jules E, Mastbaum, wealthy cinema theatre proprietor, French Government officials and noted citizens of Philadelphia last week watched a hole being made in the ground. This hole was the beginning of a museum, paid for by the wealth of Mr. Mastbaum, to house works of null Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). In it will be assembled the finest U. S. collection of his works. Outside and in front of it will be gardens and a statue, not of Mr. Mastbaum, but of The Thinker, Sculptor Rodin's most famed work...