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...ground for the new swimming pool and gymnasium was cleared of its buildings with the removal of the historic Hicks house in the early part of January. The period of inactivity will end today with the bringing in of a steam shovel. Excavation will proceed rapidly once ground is broken...
Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews. The discoveries of this year include an extraordinarily large rhinoceros-like animal and the lower jaw of a mastodon having large lower tusks, flattened so that they have a shovel effect and measure thirteen inches across...
...Minnesota deposits, almost unlimited, were yielding more than the mines, were outranking the Michigan and Wisconsin ranges. The Minnesota ore lay right at the earth's surface, or buried only a few feet. The iron-bearing substance was earthy, not rocky. All that men had to do was shovel it up and cart it away to the smelters...
...contractors who are carrying on the excavating for the architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, estimate that their work will be completed in four or five weeks, depending upon the weather. Another steam shovel will be put into use today, bringing the total dirt removing capacity of the three machines to 1500 or 1800 square yards of earth...
...work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted in the hole, lifting out the earth. For a moment he leaned back on his shovel; "So this is the end. . . ." he said. Then he stepped out of the grave and went away. In the silence, under a grey sky, the Negro went on digging...