Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City. In Denver, 50 miles away, citizens rejoiced. Some thought that the six-mile Moffat Tunnel, longest railroad bore in the U. S., would soon...
...managers of teams of other colleges--until those colleges accept, of necessity, the Harvard athletic policy in place of their own--should have some weight with the Harvard Committee on Athletics. It is natural that a manager should be reluctant to sign a contract that would leave a hole in his next year's schedule. But this they may say, is only a detail...
...which were moved away or torn down during the past fall. As soon as the last traces of these wooden structures had been removed, which was about a week ago, the present contractors and builders moved in and started work leveling the ground off and digging out the foundations' hole. Two steam shovels are at present in operation and a third will shortly be added, the work being pushed forward with great rapidity...
...death-spitting windows. Someone touched off an electric fuse-there was a splintering boom. Dynamite, laid in the night, had blown off Farmer Johnson's door. The first deputy inside fired shakily at the insane, grey figure crouching in an angle of the stairs. With a hole in his head, Mr. Johnson pitched forward. Taken to a hospital, he said he was sorry he had done so much shooting. "It gets you . . . once you start pinking people off its hard to stop...
...Banbury tinkers mend one hole and make three."?Old Saying...