Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge to the colleges, a challenge which too probably will be answered by the snorting of the steam shovel echoed in empty classrooms...
...unprecedented success of my magnum opus of last year. "The Forecast Saga, "had led to a popular clamor for a sequel, to called "The Silver Shovel." And I promised to write it, but the little woman has put her foot down. She says my life story must not appear, that she does not want to have to share me with all the world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give...
Seventy-seven Bucyrus Steam Shovels handled the dry excavation of the Panama Canal until 1907, when 24 shovels were purchased from the Marion Steam Shovel Co. ; no other shovels for canal construction were purchased after this...
...WYSE Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis. In a footnote, TIME, Sept. 26, said: "It has been said that 'Marion built the Panama Canal because these [the Marion Steam Shovel Co.'s] shovels were used extensively. . . ." To Bucyrus shovels all credit for their part. It must also be said that "South Milwaukee built the Panama Canal...
...Midnight Flyer" at noon during an eclipse, but at present chief throttle pusher of the fast 'Oriole Limited" who prides himself upon his wrestling prowess. His troubles start when Luke Beamish, "what the world lacked when they built the Panama Canal" when it comes to getting "hot" with a shovel, is taken off the old "Isobel" and made his fireman. Luke is the father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate son manage to run into plenty of milk cans and fall off plenty of platforms...