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Word: steamshovels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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...qualify students for promotion. A new and more stringent means of testing the student's calibre has been devised to supplement the nervous and mental strain of the present system, namely, the requirement that student work under fire--or more literally, in the immediate presence of a roaring steamshovel. Uninterruptedly, save for one-half hour at noon, it puffs and snorts and hisses forty feet from the open windows. No longer, aparently, can one get through the Law School by merely answering satisfactorily ten questions in four hours; he must show that he can one get through the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diggery Dock | 6/6/1928 | See Source »

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