Word: shovelers
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...words annoy me greatly in your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...
...Cleveland, 200 ambitious, attentive young men, about to be sworn in as attorneys, listened to the words of a grim jurist in a shovel-tail coat-a gentleman whose pointed head, lean yellow face and sardonic lip bristle gave him a Mephistophelian air, but whose words were admonitory, noble, penetrating. He-Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall of the Ohio Supreme court-was flaying the professional ethics of Clarence D arrow, famed champion of Leopold, Loeb and the Ape. Said he, referring to the Scopes trial (TIME, July...
...Eskimo sailor had deserted in mid-Arctic, taking a gun and scoop shovel. Signal lights were left out for him and after several days mushing in the icepack he returned, sadder, wiser...
Work on the new Business School, which has hitherto consisted of filling in and levelling the land and of moving the few frame houses that formerly occupied part of the site, took an active and interesting turn yesterday morning, when a steam shovel appeared upon the scene and started excavations for the basements of the new buildings. Dean Donham of the Business School, who happened to be present at the start of the excavations, took charge of the shovel and operated it while the first bucketful of earth was removed...
...weeks is the time allowed for the completion of the excavation for each of the buildings of the new group. At present only one shovel is at work, but as it is intended to have a number of shovels working later in the season, it is very probable that the dirt will be removed much faster than preliminary estimates indicate...