Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first hole on the Tam-0'Shanter Golf Course 75,000 Pennsylvanians and Ohioans were gathered to hear the first Landon campaign speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker...
...side of a sleepy black steer, Dr. Arthur F. Schalk carved a hole big enough to push a beer bottle through. Straight through the abdominal wall he sliced, until the interior of the rumen and the reticulum-two of the four bovine stomach cavities-was disclosed to view. When the edges of the hole in his steer had healed, plump, white-thatched Dr. Schalk, professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University, stoppered it with a wooden plug...
Professor Francis W. Davis of the university's photography department removed the plug, brought a cinecamera up close to the hole, took pictures of what was going on in the steer's stomach. The film clearly showed that digestion in a cow's stomach is continuous. Semiliquid food surged through in periodic waves like surf...
Enoch Kuklinskie Jr. was 35, married and a coal bootlegger. He and his 60-year-old father got their livings from a hole on a mountainside north of Shamokin in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. The hole was on Stevens Coal Co. property which was not being worked. Like 3,500 other unemployed miners around Shamokin, the Kuklinskies mined coal on company property, called themselves bootleggers. The company called them thieves. Like the others they made about $4 a day digging coal out of abandoned shafts, selling it to independent truckers. And like other bootleggers they never bothered much about timbering...
Superintendent Jones promptly mustered another crew of company miners for another purpose. On North Mountain they went from one bootleg coal hole to another, grimly dynamited every one. Before Enoch Kuklinskie died of a broken back that evening Stevens Coal Co.'s Shamokin properties were sealed against illegal entry for a long time...