Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I respectfully protest against the article published in your issue of Jan. 20 under the title of "New CINCUS," by which you no doubt mean Commander-in-Chief, U. S. I do so because I think your dirty digs at Vice Admiral Hepburn are entirely uncalled for, misleading and spiteful. . . . Any fool can readily see the innuendo in the first paragraph of the article. Vice Admiral Hepburn does not owe his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet in any degree to the fact that the President and the Secretary of the Navy are old acquaintances...
...University of Chicago John D. Rockefeller Jr. founded the Oriental Institute with an endowment of some $13,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). From that ornate building which houses one of the 40-ton stone bulls of Sargon II, the rosy, white-haired little man, too old to dig, directed his legions in the field, kept track of the dispositions of natives and their governments, religious prejudices, malarial sectors, progress of rival diggers. But he was not satisfied to move colored pins about on a map. Every year he visited his digging parties by airplane. Homing wearily from his last...
...will henceforth decide when and where the Institute's parties shall dig reads hieroglyphics for relaxation, sometimes detective stories. He is married, has three children. Though Director Wilson, like his predecessor, has delved in the tomb of TutankhAmen, he is unimpressed by the tabloid demonology which would put him under a Pharaoh's "curse." In fact, he points out, insurance actuaries marvel at the ripe old age at which most Egyptologists...
...this was caused by the fact that the skis would dig themselves farther and farther into the ground when the plane was in horizontal position, as on the take-off. Soon it was found that a cord attached to the wing struts raising the front of the ski removed the danger of burying. A stop cable also was fastened on to the rear of the ski leading to the main plane bracing. These two improvements kept the ski in correct position for maneuvering on the ground or for the take...
...brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse's saddle and galloped away. A posse found him in Moody Swamp, his mother's body in a ravine. Police forced frightened Negroes to dig a grave in Little Sandy Cemetery, into which the family council laid Mrs. Scott...