Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a pawn in the game of politics to you two who are trying to hold on to your fine jobs." Three days later Tammany and Tam-manyman Cohalan were again content, the Republicans were chortling with unsuppressed glee, and Roosevelt & Co. was putting its collective head together to dig up another "pawn." To dumbfounded newshawks in Albany Governor Lehman had just handed a mimeographed statement: "I feel that the time has come when I may ask release from the cares and responsibilities of the Governorship. Accordingly I shall not be a candidate for re-election this autumn." A shock...
...statement printed in the CRIMSON, that "psychologists believe Jung under Nazi thumb" is evidently a sly dig at a serious and respectable group of scientists. As well say, "Psychologists believe adult mountain lion tamed by boy scout." Nothing less true could be thought of Dr. Jung. He slipped form under his father's thumb and later from under Freud's, and since then no one has even been able to put salt on his tall...
...sporting, TIME, to speak without knowledge of our "extravagant ballyhoo," nor is it anything but a dig to speak of our "tiny university's (fulltime students: 1,248) huge stadium." If your man was disappointed in the showing of the Eastern athletes, why didn't he say so? And incidentally his story of the Pennsylvania carnival was built around the performance of a sprint relay team from Texas and two boys from Ohio State, a member of the Western Conference. Small wonder, is there not, in being unable to write about any of your effete Easterners...
...Nova Scotia the old Moose River Gold Mine collapsed, entombing its new owners, Toronto's Dr. David Edwin Robertson, Lawyer Herman Russell Magill and their employe, Alfred Scadding (TIME, April 27). The Moose River catastrophe set all Canada tingling with excitement as rescue crews began to dig, drill and dynamite...
...influenza. In addition, hunting and fishing had brought them so little profit in recent years that they were undernourished. At the epidemic's darkest moment, Dr. Greist had 13 dead Eskimos lying in his Presbyterian church waiting until their tribesmen could get together enough wood for coffins, dig graves in the frozen earth...