Word: spadework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Sir William spent the last eleven years at the University of Chicago on professorship to work on the Dictionary, returning to England only for the summers, most of the spadework was done by his colleague. Chicago Professor James Root Hulburt and small, Scottish George Watson, longtime subordinate on the Oxford Dictionary who followed Craigie to Chicago in 1926. Last week with the Dictionary well under way, Sir William had returned to his home at Watlington, England, where he will probably stay to work on a new Dictionary of Scottish Tongues...
...traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework of organizing the gatherings is divided up among retreat captains, chairman of whom is wiry young William ("Bill") Lennox, business manager of athletics at Penn. Worked up to a great state of pious enthusiasm by Chairman Lennox, Retreat Captain Tom O'Connor, master boilermaker at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, mustered...
...island, presumably in company with his lush mistress, Donna Maria. Trujillo planned to stop in Washington to renew the 17-month moratorium on the $16,000,000 debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework with the U. S. State Department. Inasmuch as Trujillo's position depends on steady pay for his oversized army of 2,700, he obviously cannot afford fully to amortize the debt...
...smaller roles have been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much as 16 hours a day, shouting at his horns for greater force and clarity, pleading with his strings for more true...
...currently laboring under the name of the "Modern Missions Movement." Most active worker is Dr. Orville Anderson Petty, 60, Congregationalist minister, one-time president of Arnold College in New Haven, onetime Army chaplain (with citations and decorations), onetime president of the New Haven Council of Churches. Dr. Petty did spadework for the Laymen's Inquiry as a "FactFinder" in India. Says he: "An increasing number of world-minded Christians desire to support work abroad on the basis of merit and promise, regardless of religious affiliations." Last week Dr. Petty was busy preparing lists of "Commendations" from which such Christians...