Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospector and promoter named Gilbert LaBine, who had started a company called Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd., was driving his dogsled across the frozen surface of Canada's Great Bear Lake, which is cut by the Arctic Circle. He spotted a vein of curious, glossy stuff which looked something like anthracite coal, with gleams of yellow, pink and green, recognized it as pitchblende. Surveys and assays showed that the deposit was rich and copious. In 1933 a refining plant was completed at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, 3,500 miles away. The Great Bear Lake find broke the Belgian monopoly...
...deaf, which should lead in the preservation and use of the facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient and dependable medium of expression for those bereft of hearing, be it resolved that this Association unhesitatingly reaffirms its historical allegiance to and support of the beautiful Sign Language and Manual Alphabet, and commends...
Back in San Francisco after frolicking at the famed annual outdoor tycoon bust of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. John P, Bickell, mining speculator and director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, celebrated Wall Street bear, backer of the Merrill-Lambie Coronation flight, were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices...
Pioneer Days. "The early pioneers faced many hardships. . . . Their companions were forest bears, panthers, deer, wolves, wildcats and raccoons. The hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...
...Lexington, captured two British forts, destroyed licensed pack trains carrying guns to the Indians, thumbed their noses while British generals and Royal Governor John Penn fumed and threatened or merely whimpered helplessly that "they use the Troops upon every occasion with such indignity & abuse that Flesh and Blood cannot bear it." Leader of these slippery, hard-hitting rebels (who insisted, however, they were as loyal subjects as any), was a man named James Smith. Central figure of Mr. Swanson's book, this remarkable Indian fighter and Revolutionist stands out as one of the most dramatic minor figures ever neglected...