Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...seems now that neither of these ideas were correct. Harrison G. Dyar, an entomologist of the Smithsonian Institute comes forward with the answer. He was the sapper of those mysterious passages. Weary with his day's toil Mr. Dyar found pleasure in donning overalls, throwing a pick and shovel over his shoulder, and digging tunnels beneath the most exclusive residential sections of Washington, the capital...