Word: shovelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANGELES HERALD-EXPRESS: Senator Morse objects-to anyone criticizing him, but he is free to criticize everyone. Wayne Morse, ex-Republican, now Democrat, can dish it out with a shovel, but he cannot take it with a teaspoon...
Summer after summer it was the same. As soon as the tall Herr Professor arrived at the Baltic seaside for his vacation, he began to pace the beach methodically, studying the terrain. Then, in coveralls, armed with an enormous shovel, he started to dig. Hour after hour, day after day, he labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from...
...daring gamble, he hired four experts, put them to work in Los Angeles. Using a special fuel-injection system, they developed 361 h.p. in a big (5.5 liters) Chevrolet engine. Double-size drum brakes were another innovation. The result was the Scarab-a low, shovel-nosed racer that quickly won its spurs by outrunning the long-dominant Ferraris, Maseratis and Jaguars produced in Europe...
...that the students are just letting their questions go rather than take the trouble"; day-to-day happenings cannot be related to course material; teachers filming new courses have to be careful not to drag in anything topical. Said one teacher plaintively: "They say it takes the pick-and-shovel repetition out of teaching. But some teachers like to teach...
Everything in the new administration and laboratory building indicates the joint nature of the project. There is an equal distribution of chairs bearing the Tech and Harvard insignia. Livingston has on the wall of his office the two-handled shovel with which the President of Harvard University and the Chancellor of MIT broke ground for the project last year...