Word: shovelful
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...backbone is an arched cantilever system suspended from the towers, the chest and abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like a derrick (the neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs which propel the whole structure forward...
...pick-&-shovel corps of Science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished animals, men and civilizations. Recent doings of diggers...
...taught to roll over and sit up for peanuts. One morning last week when Langley went into the pen to give the bear breakfast it pounced on him, chased him 100 yd., knocked him down, mauled him to death. When Langley's hired man ran up with a shovel, the bear killed...
...home from Manhattan looked up to see among placard advertisements of chewing gum and corn cures a blurb reading "THE YANKEE AT KING EDWARD'S COURT" This sold at 15? each some 100,000 copies of the new New York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will be a victory for the Throne, the King, quite evidently, is the most helpless of creatures, a man over 40 who has fallen desperately in love." The New York World-Telegram, leading organ of the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain, followed this with...
...famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India's Rai Dahaden Agarwal and his wife Mme Kapoorsundri Agarwal in her embroidered shawl; Lithuania's Jurgis Ciurlys, director of machines of the Lithuanian State Rail ways; Poland's eminent Dr. S. J. Zowski- Zwierzchowski of Warsaw Polytechnic Institute...