Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...
...soldiers row a girl and her executioner to an island in the Volga; though they carry the spades to dig her grave their conversation is almost friendly. A wisecracking peasant sits in a doctor's reception room, makes ducks and drakes of the doctor's prescriptions. Because of the housing shortage, a man and a girl go through a form of marriage in order to share a room; though the man keeps carefully to his side of the bargain, the girl finds there is no such thing as a purely business arrangement...
...strike warfare all through San Francisco's business district. The prospect looked grimmer and grimmer to San Franciscans and to Governor Merriam who soon might need thousands of guardsmen to keep the peace. It also looked grim to the President's special labor board which began open hearings to dig out the issues, line up public opinion...
...Lemuel does the Algerian thing by stopping a runaway horse in Central Park and saving a banker's lovely daughter. But all he gets out of that is the loss of an eye. He goes to jail again, is held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death the martyred hero...
Fancy Hole. President Carl Ewald Grunsky of the California Academy of Science died last week just before he was to suggest that, if all mankind cooperated, they might dig a hole through the 200 miles of earth's crust and tap tremendous heat and gas imprisoned under 900,000 Ib. pressure per square inch...