Word: shoveling
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...worded orders or directives from a comfortable central office, but whose faces seldom, if ever, would be seen by the workers or their immediate superiors. It takes more than just words to teach anything, it takes examples and repeated demonstrations of right methods, even the correct use of a shovel or wheelbarrow, tools which many Koreans have never seen...
...produced its own brewery wagon for the parade, drawn by a pair of dray horses and followed by a brace of Yale men carrying one shovel and one garbage can respectively. Other classes wielded canes, fans, and long white beards...
...well be considered that some of the historical fabric of the picture is fairly enjoyable. It was framed in Berlin itself, and a little of the agony and destruction of the country is caught. A single little shovel digging methodically into an infinite pile of rubble is about as grimly futile as Tantalus' hopeless reach for the fruit...
Last week when the waterworks men came to start their digging, Tom was ready for them. As the first shovel bit the dirt, Tom Hugo strode from his house, fell on his knees and cried: "Haro! Haro! Haro! à l'aide, mon Prince, on me fait tort!" (Help, my prince, I am being wronged). Then he recited the Lord's Prayer in French. Without a word, the workmen picked up their tools...
...foundations are now being completed in the excavation, which had lain untouched during the period of the hearings. Three laborers and two carpenters work on the project from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, along with a steam shovel crew. The Niles Contractor Company of Newton is in charge of the construction. The church should be completed in nine months...