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单词 steam shovel
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For a museum, it didn’t look like much—a little house like an old-fashioned railroad station, some drills and pumps and old steam shovels on display outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
The kids watched their shoes, but their ears flared out like steam shovels. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
Working the opposite corner, Ball watched him throw jabs up from the waist with a sharp exhale “like a steam shovel,” and follow up with powerful right hands. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z
“Think of the windows of Gene Moore in the ’60s that juxtaposed a toy steam shovel with a pile of sand and an extraordinary diamond in a Tiffany setting. At Tiffany, the Fifth Avenue Face-Lift Starts at Home 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z
The answer is always no, and it takes a steam shovel and a bit of serendipity to eventually reunite mother and child in their nest. 5 good kids' books about mothers 2010-05-06T23:55:00Z
Mr. De Maria began making drawings and proposals for earthworks in 1960, starting with “Art Yard,” a Happening-like urban event that would involve steam shovels digging a large hole. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 2013-07-27T01:54:42Z
Any sadness about the loss of this ancient structure may be complicated by the video’s final shot, showing a steam shovel knocking everything down, the brief “Matta-Clark” included. Back in the Bronx: Gordon Matta-Clark, Rogue Sculptor 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z
He traveled to Panama where he visited the construction site, taking a turn at the steam shovel and removing dirt. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z
But his “aggressively belligerent characteristic” stuck with him after leaving the steam shovels in the Panama Canal, and he ended up in “almost constant controversies,” according to the obituary. 2020 couldn’t be true ‘dumpster fire’ without Knoxville man 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z
Now an art world that McCarthy says is usually “moving like a steam shovel” has been stilled, the pandemic has offered a rare chance to look back over older work. 'I get censored four or five times a year': Paul McCarthy, art's virtuoso of vile 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z
Developers in the 1950s removed an undocumented number of remains by steam shovel, under the passive eyes of D.C. health inspectors. Opinion | D.C. has a chance to repair the destruction of Quaker and African American cemeteries 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z
Scores of trucks brought in dirt to fill the sandbags, while steam shovels and fire pumps helped out. While war raged in the Pacific, Washington fought the great flood of 1942 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z
Underwood noted that the ongoing roadwork allowed him to see a real steam shovel at work, and he and cousin Peggy benefited from all the construction, selling garden surplus and Cokes to the workers. Longtime Kentucky home damaged by tornado to see new life 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z
“Washington overpowered my father like a steam shovel, tossing him into a heap like discarded dirt,” she wrote. JFK documents could show the truth about a diplomat's death 47 years ago 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z
It later tumbled out of debris being scooped up by a steam shovel. The Time to Retrieve Time’s Time Capsule Is at Hand 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z
“The Old Quarter” was lowered with steam shovels that dumped their catches onto several movable conveyor belts. It took six tries, but Seattle finally leveled Denny Hill 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z
Or: “Elizabeth always wanted to read fables to her little girl but the child only wanted to hear the story about the little bird who thought a steam shovel was its mother.” Joy Williams’s Refractory Brilliance 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z
More technological advances, including the diamond drill, electric rail and steam shovel, ushered in a new era of industrial-scale lead mining in southeast Missouri. Life in Missouri's Fading Old Lead Belt 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z
The company produced as much as 80 percent of the nation’s steam shovels and earth-moving equipment. City aims to keep popcorn legacy despite job loss 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z
The project is its most ambitious expansion here since the days when the railroad was built with steam shovels and men swinging pick axes. Railway upgrade both bad and good for Ross 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z
The greatest development of this sort of mining has come about since the application of the modern steam shovel to the excavation of ore. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z
Compare the two things, a state of consciousness and say, a steam shovel. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z
The spoil-trains follow one another at intervals of about three minutes, and if, from any cause, delay occur, the steam shovels, and indeed the whole process of excavation, is brought to a standstill. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z
But this stranger had come to us just to take away our useless steam shovel. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z
Some lies only a few feet underground so that it is possible to take it by stripping away the thin overlying material and blast and scoop it out with a steam shovel. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z
A famous gold mine in Queensland, Australia—the Mount Morgan—is also being worked by steam shovel methods. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z
Can anyone imagine how a thought can turn into a steam shovel, or a steam shovel into a thought? The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z
But then the hitch came—there were no cars to take the place of those already filled, and the steam shovel was idle. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z
Co. with steam shovels and the material used by them for riprap, thus making a considerable saving to the State Highway Commission. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z
Three steam shovels picked at the Teleco rubble Thursday, pushing it into piles. 2010-02-12T05:00:00Z
The Lincoln Highway signs take one to the right on a short detour in order that one may see this mountain of ore, which is being cut away by immense steam shovels, tier above tier. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway
Their attention was specially attracted by one giant steam shovel that rattled and puffed like some untiring monster. Bert Wilson at Panama
Looking round, I found that many other steam shovels and their crews were idle from the same cause, the machinery for transportation not having been provided in proper proportion to the machinery of excavation. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z
The gravel for this work was taken from pits at Cascade Locks, Herman, Sonny and Hood River, was loaded by steam shovels, screened at two of the pits and hauled by auto trucks. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z
Then he returned to the work with redoubled vigor, tossing the dirt aside as though he were a tireless steam shovel. Doubloons—and the Girl
“You bet we will!” declared Fred, “even if we have to import a steam shovel to dig up the whole territory.” The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold
The steam shovel had worked its way along, until now it had reached a spot directly in front of this stump. Bert Wilson at Panama
The steam shovel is the principal agent of excavation. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z
Suddenly the steam shovel of a beak buried itself in the jelly body of the water animal, and there spurted out a flood of inky liquid. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930
I'd better get a wrecking train with a crane on it and a steam shovel here. Astounding Stories, May, 1931
Excavating, the first operation in street paving, is usually done by a steam shovel which loads the dirt directly into wagons.Monotonous: The Century Handbook of Writing
"I thought the old steam shovel was up against it for fair, that time." Bert Wilson at Panama
What I've just got through telling you was just practice exercises for the bird with the muscular mitts, the uncanny grip, the steam shovel hands and the never-break-clutch. Interference and Other Football Stories
In the first case the ores can be mined easily and cheaply with steam shovels at the surface. The Economic Aspect of Geology
The gigantic mouths of the steam shovels gnawed at the rock and the clay. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
The excavating is usually done by means of a steam shovel. The Century Handbook of Writing
A steam shovel rattled and puffed, cement mixers crashed, and compressed air drills hammered perseveringly at the living rock. Bert Wilson at Panama
It was a square-faced man with beetling brows and a chin like the biting end of a steam shovel. Get Out of Our Skies!
Mining of shallow bituminous beds by means of the steam shovel. The Economic Aspect of Geology
Always the great steam shovels were biting into the soil and the rock. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam
He saw the broad-shouldered, black-coated figure contemplating a steam shovel that was gnawing at the rocky soil beside the rapids. The Rapids
Then the men would fall to again with renewed energy, the giant steam shovel would be set to work, and a few more yards of rock would be carried away. Bert Wilson at Panama
Next came the immense excavation at Kambove where I watched American steam shovels in charge of Americans, gouging the copper ore out of the sides of the hills. An African Adventure
They had a cave-in on the irrigation canal and two or three men got caught under a coal platform near the steam shovel. The Daughter of a Magnate
The noises of the digging, the dynamiting, the pounding of the steam shovels, the nervous tooting of the dirt trains, might have been a thousand miles away. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam
Their feet were moving like miniature steam shovels and showers of earth and infant vegetables were moving likewise. Fair Harbor
It was before the day of the steam shovel or air drill. The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History
The steam shovel was invented, the traveling crane, the gigantic derrick, the pile driver. Steve and the Steam Engine
A pocket of gravel on the eastern bank had slipped, engulfing a steam shovel, and a gang of men were busy about it. The Daughter of a Magnate
All you have to do is to shoot it down and scoop it up with a steam shovel. Rimrock Jones
Muck loaded by steam shovel working exclusively on this heading. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
The man who has faith to remove mountains always finds the picks and the steam shovels somewhere. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals
As a mechanical product it was no more remarkable than a steam shovel. My Second Year of the War
The excavation was started by hand, but three 70-ton Bucyrus steam shovels were put to work as soon as they could be delivered, the first on July 25th and the third on September 12th. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157
The Tecolote was better than most, for there were open cuts with steam shovels scooping up the ore, and miners driving holes into the shattered formation and powder-men loading shots. Rimrock Jones
The steam shovels were supplemented by two Browning, 15-ton, locomotive cranes, which handled the spoil in places where timbering interfered with the operation of the shovels. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
Did you ever see a steam shovel at work? Class of '29
At the head of Lake Superior are almost illimitable beds of iron ore which looks like rich red earth, and is scooped up by the carload with steam shovels. American Merchant Ships and Sailors
As a steam shovel must pick up what is nearest to it first, however, this classification could not always be adhered to, and many large rocks were loaded into dumpers. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157
The old bear made only two or three dabs at the pile when she began to suspect something was wrong, and then she sailed into it like a steam shovel. Bears I Have Met—and Others
After the installation of the permanent plant, most of the muck was handled by steam shovels. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
Those winters I worked at the State House I learned enough to fill three penitentiaries with great and good men, but you couldn't dig it out of me with a steam shovel. A Hoosier Chronicle
To us, with our steam shovels and drills, our great derricks, our dynamite, it would be a small matter to dig a ditch 4 feet deep, 40 feet wide, and 363 miles long. A School History of the United States
Like the main arm of some great steam shovel, two long, latticed girders of steel shot out from the sides of the tank. Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam
There were engines, boilers, dynamos, motors, diamond drills, steam shovels and a miniature railway, with mules as the motive power. Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes
Part of the muck handled by hand and part by steam shovel. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
A steam shovel had been all but installed and a large stationary engine rested on nearly completed foundations. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand
Big mouthfuls of dirt were being bitten out of the hill by steam shovels, loaded on to cars and the trains of cars were pulled twelve miles away to the dumping ground. The Moving Picture Boys at Panama Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal
Regiments of steam shovels attack the banks, exhibiting a grotesque appearance of animal intelligence in their behavior. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914)
The steam shovels, the dirt trains, the machine shops, and the like, are all filled with American engineers, conductors, machinists, boiler-makers, carpenters. Letters to His Children
The tanks rooted them up like a steam shovel. The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge
Oh, but we've birds singing in the contracting business, too, for what's sweeter music to the ear than the puffing of a hoisting engine, or the rattling of the chains of a steam shovel? Hidden Treasure
So with dredges, with steam shovels, and hydraulic pumps, that sucked through big flexible pipes mud and water, spraying it off to one side, the work went on. The Moving Picture Boys at Panama Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal
San Francisco employment bureaus will readily supply the remainder, and I have half a dozen fine boys on tap to boss the steam shovel, pile- driver, bridge-building gang, track-layer and construction gang. The Valley of the Giants
Under the snouts of the steam shovels "dobe" shots went off as bowlders were riven into smaller fragments. The Ne'er-Do-Well
Removing it is not a question of blasting with dynamite; it is merely a matter of lifting it from the surface of the earth with a huge steam shovel. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry
Some activities, Mr. Williams, you're having around here, what with the steam shovel working in the ditch and a tractor plow working in the fields. Hidden Treasure
He was too light for the work, which would have glutted the capacity of a steam shovel. Sixes and Sevens
"You surely couldn't use your steam shovel for that job, it would be too big and heavy." Hidden Treasure
"You said you had a steam shovel, Mr. Brady," said Bob. Hidden Treasure
A huge steam shovel opens its jaws, descends into an open amphitheater, licks up five tons at each mouthful, and, swinging sideways over the open cars, neatly deposits its booty. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry
The operator of the steam shovel loaded the wagons for him and this saved much time for two shovelfuls made a load. Hidden Treasure
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