Word: spades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "Wendell Willkie will presumably go out here with a spade and dig up Bonneville and Grand Coulee. . . . The United States Government has $270,000,000 invested in Bonneville and Grand Coulee and I have more conception of the value that that investment represents than all the New Deal crew put together and piled up double...
Started as a voluntary organization by Alan N. G. Little, instructor in Greek and Latin, the spade work of the committee was done by Little and Henry Hope, also an instructor in Greek and Latin. Titular head of the committee now is Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the committee of Admissions, while Beatrice M. Taussig, daughter-in-law of Professor Taussig, the economist, is in active charge. Gerald F. Else '29, instructor in Greek and Latin, is treasurer. Operating on a shoe string, the committee meets its few expenses through private donations...
There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left...
...immediately thereafter, when Tammany's Farley and a few discerning others began to think that their Governor might be a President; and the Governor's casual okay when Jim Farley put out the first Presidential feelers; 1932, and the cross-continent marathon of Farley handshaking, letter writing, spade work which preceded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination at Chicago...
...weeks ago the H.S.U. Yard Questions Committee got out its spade and dug up an ugly little paradox. Blinking its eyes in the unaccustomed light was the fact that next year over two hundred bio-chemistry concentrators will be unable to take a single course in their field of concentration. Evidently the light had a stimulating effect. Headed by Dr. A. C. Redfield, a departmental committee has been formed to seek a remedy. So far, so good. But if history can teach a lesson, any loud cheering is still premature. The committee is riding down a rocky road strewn with...