Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been known right along in Moscow that the Government was going to ask its people to dig into their pockets for another $800,000,000 loan, but the fact that subscriptions were opened last week was whooped into headlines suggesting that Russia, provoked by Japan, had suddenly made this major war-loan gesture in retort...
Vacation time to many of those connected with the Museum on Divinity Street means practical research work in the field. This summer undergraduates, Graduate students, geology section men, and professors are returning to old haunts to map, scratch, dig, and theorize in pursuit of science...
...daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Jean Austin Sobrio. What the Austins will do with their fortunes is a mystery. Rugged old Mr. Austin once declared: "I have two sons, and half a million would probably make loafers out of them. . . . The boys will appreciate it more if they have to dig the money out themselves." The people who will do the digging now are J. K. Wadley of Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests of Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner, the oldtime wildcatter who brought in the East Texas oil field in 1930. Mr. Wadley...
...Others say that the varying schools of thought and branches of psychology, (such as social, experimental, psycho-physical, abnormal and dynamic), make it impossible to present a well-organized front of teaching. There seems to be plenty of raw material in the department for men who are willing to dig...
...English is taught as more than just a means of talking to one's neighbor in study hall and is treated as one of the fine arts, are already acquainted with much of the material with which English 1 deals. It would be more profitable for these men to dig right into the field in one of the period courses, rather than let their interest cool in reshuffling old cards. Those who would then be left in the course could take it as their first glimpse of the broad field of English Literature as a whole, or it would serve...