Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging by Hand. The drill ran into trouble just short of the 100-ft. mark. In relays, men were lowered by a hoisting bucket to dig the rest of the way by hand. It was grueling work. Dirt and rocks as big as a man's head had to be hoisted up bucket by bucket. Burly Bill Yancey, a 38-year-old sewerage contractor who had been on a wartime underwater demolition team, dug for two hours and 20 minutes before he was hauled...
...licking Labor took in the London County Council elections (see above). For years, Laborite leaders had appeased the workers' demands for higher wages by pointing out that the Socialist government was at least keeping prices low. Now there was bound to be trouble. Said Socialist M.P. Mark Hewitson of the powerful General and Municipal Workers' Union: "I give a warning. The writing is on the wall and the footprints are on the sand. The government has either got to help or else...
This is Clark's third year as number five oarsman for the Crimson lightweights. Before coming to Harvard he rowed at St. Mark...
...chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first of the new Hollywood cycle on the Negro problem (TIME, March...
...could seldom bring myself to say it. A woman and a politician must say that word often, and mean it-or else." But if he had any regrets Jimmy kept them to himself. Said he: "I have carried youth right up to the fifty-yard mark. I had mine and made the most...