Word: spadeful
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...pride of Oksgptgmfp is in fine fettle, and boldly challenges all comers. The numerous games including a broom and spade contest, "piff the piffles," and other innovations especially invented for this evening are in readiness. The fifteen piece band is playing "Tipperary" in its sleep, and the committee is with difficulty restraining itself from the enticements of the free liquid refreshments which have been bought in abundant quantities...
...George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, donor of the Widener Memorial Library will break ground for the new building today, turning up the first spade-full of earth at 12.30 o'clock. The ceremony will be very simple with no address; and only a few invited persons will be admitted...
...result of the senior elections for honor men C. L. McKeehan was chosen spoon man as the most popular man of his class, E. Essig, bowl man, as the second most popular man, J. D. Winsor, Jr., received the class cane and A. S. Brooke the spade...
...citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern traveller as to what manner of men these later kings of Mycenae may have been, and recounted the final fate of the citadel. Mideia and Argos, the two other ancient citadels in the Argive plain, still wait for the spade of some enterprising excavator...
...startling theory that the temples and the fountain called Enneacrunus, named by Thucydides in this chaper, did not lie south and southeast of the Acropolis, as scholars have supposed, but to the west. His latest excavations have been made with the expectation of establishing by the aid of the spade the truth of his belief...