Word: shafted
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Quite splintered was the Tuscan's oaken shaft...
Unhappy Sir--It is best to peruse this letter in bed. If this is inconvenient, at least don't read it at a stairway, elevator shaft, or near non-resilient or sharp objects. Move away from the window now, take a deep breath and hold it. One, two, three: Your wife and kiddies dropped dead today from--Woop there! Steady man! Watch out for . . . .! As I was saying, fell dead from the Waldorf-Astoria roof. They were all playing tag football when the wife stepped back for a long drop. And do you know that flagstaff in the square below...
Ever since the unusual stimulation provided by the World War, the deep-shaft, low grade copper mines of this country have found the going hard, with production costs close to market quotations for the red metal. Discouraged producers, especially in Michigan, are now turning to tariff legislation as the only visible means of running their properties at a profit. The movement has resulted in a bill introduced by Representative W. Frank James of Michigan, to place a tariff on imported copper of 6? a pound...
...object of sealing the tomb is to enable Dr. Reisner to utilize his experience in recording this unique discovery. Nothing has been touched inside the tomb. Those who have seen the find have only looked in from the doorway at the bottom of the 80 foot shaft. The date of Dr. Reisner's return to Egypt has not yet been determined...
...authorities to continue to preserve strict secrecy regarding further investigation of the new Giza tomb, but I learn today from a source which I have every reason to consider trustworthy that one of the expert Egyptologists working at Saqqarah descended into the shaft and after reading the inscription expressed the opinion that it was the tomb of Sneferuw himself...