Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after...
With meticulous care the archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt...
...stencilled plot of The Champ might not have tempted many of Hollywood's directors, but it was rich to the taste of Director King Vidor. Far from being ashamed of such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible...
...Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History, also a paleontologist, was to talk next for 15 minutes on his hypothesis that the organs of an animal have their own struggle for existence. That is why animals of the same general family have different characteristics. Example: the shovel tusked mastodon developed its lower jaw to scoop food from swamps. The African elephant developed its upper tusks to uproot trees for their tender top leaves. This Osborn theory opposes the Darwinian theory that new types develop from accidental variations of which only those survive which are best adapted...
Plans have been made recently by the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott to double the size of the present Gore Hall dining room by an underground extension into the dormitory court. The excavation will start next week when two or more steam shovel crews will enter the court by a breach to be made in the fencing facing the river. Already shrubbery and paving have been removed from the site...