Word: shovelful
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...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...
...spade called a "b-- shovel...
Most of the University candidates are planning to do conditioning work this summer, either with the pick and shovel, or by means of summer athletics. A bunch of hardened athletes will report on Soldiers Field next September...
...graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners' union (Knights of Labor...
...called for his pick, and he called for his shovel, and he called for his gougers three." So, apparently, runs the ancient anthem of the coal states as unearthed by the Coal Commission. The song should strike a responsive chord within the undergraduate shivering by his sputtering lump of coal as well as within struggling householders and large manufacturers. But contrary to expectation the Commission puts the blame for high prices upon the wholesalers rather than upon the retailers. That the retailers are blameless should, however, be evident enough anyhow, for with the large number of retailers, each must deal...