Word: spading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Afer the usual amount of deliberate thought, however, the idea rather grows on one. It is perfectly true that the Yard has always been considered complete--sacred territory, free from the spade of the laborer and the hammer of the stonemason. But that does not mean that it need always remain so. The new buildings are well placed, and their design is in harmony with the best of the existing Colonial Yard architecture...
...subcommission, under the chairmanship of brilliant Dr. Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, labored furiously to evolve a plan of arbitration, security and disarmament that would be acceptable to all Powers. Spade work over and final touches made, the subcommission made its report to the Permanent Disarmament Commission...
...spade called a "b-- shovel...
...phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux of Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to, have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux et Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...