Word: shovelful
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...Grand Rapids, Mich. Lorence T. Holtzlander, 63, his son Zenith, 16, and two friends were arrested, charged with stealing a 40-ton locomotive, a steam shovel, railroad tracks...
...Feeling that a library of any sort should be built not only of bricks, mortar, gilt domes, but also of books, they did their part. Contractors arriving on the job the next morning found piled in the corner of the future basement of the Morgan Library, beside a steam shovel, a collection of the eight little blue textbooks...
...going on the theory that America has solved the art or problem of distribution. The necessitates a medium of exchange of purchasing power placed in the hands of the buyer. The Grub Stake Plan," Mr. Walker went on, "is simply this: first, a grub stake...grub, a pick, a shovel and a pan... for prospectors and placer panners; then transport to placer regions, where it has already been shown that fifty cents a day or better is the average recovery of gold; finally food, which might well be distributed by the Commissary Departments of the army and navy." This primary...
Puffer In West Paterson, N. J. a crowd gathered around a parked automobile to watch 23-month-old Charles Normand III and his father, a steam shovel operator, puff black cigars. Baby Normand's mother explained that he had started to smoke his father's cigars at 14 months, now has one of his own each night at cribtime. Whenever he sees a cigar or pipe, Baby Normand says: "'Moke, 'moke! me want." He does not inhale...
...mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters, have furnished two dinosaurs, a brontosaurus, a shovel-jawed elephant, a sabre-toothed tiger, a wooly rhinoceros and prehistoric specimens of gorilla, horse, giraffe, giant turtle...