He absorbed knowledge from a broad range of fields with the efficiency of a power shovel scooping earth.

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The leaders of the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade, which in 2000 used volunteer muscle power to move a boulder and reopen a wilderness road near Elko, Nevada, rallied to Tombstone's side.

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At present, China's banks shovel workers' savings into state-owned enterprises, depriving workers of spending power and private companies of capital.

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