Word: spadeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Dawes' diagnosis of the trouble was correct, his prescription is even more valuable: "I wish some of the men here would start out to call a spade a spade, and take his successive lickings at the hands of the political bosses. I can promise him a career of statesmanship, the only career worthy of an honest man's ambition...
...discoveries just made public by the University, tells a romantic story. Here is a subject ready to the hand of a sentimental philosopher--the story of an ancient race, long ruling the Upper Nile, and once sovereign over all Egypt, now laid bare in its decay by the spade of scientific investigation...
...expect to attend the dinner should notify the secretary. Vincent Spade a '22. at 23 Walter Hastings, before noon today...