Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week of the coal strike, the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. let it be known that it had conducted successful experiments with a new machine which cuts, crumbles and loads coal in one continuous operation. The machine promised to revolutionize the mining industry, which is already highly mechanized, and make mere button-pushers out of miners...
Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic stuff for sagas...
...England last week on an exhibition tour, Joe Louis was having his own troubles. He fired a British sparring partner because he couldn't get him to throw mere than one punch a round. His weight was up to 225 Ibs. and a second chin was beginning to show. Joe rode to the House of Commons in a borrowed Rolls-Royce, listened to about 30 minutes of debate ("I got there in the middle and I didn't quite understand it. ... I couldn't hear it too plain...
Most of the picture is mere "minor" detail and incident: a summer storm, a Sunday Mass, an inarticulate courtship; baking, plowing, haying, threshing; the steady modulation of the days and nights and weathers and seasons across the land. And such images are the chief vocabulary in which the picture's grave eloquence is expressed...
Sane perusal of the situation finds no legitimate and non-hysterical opinion marshalled against the Bill. The sacrificial dogs, which are killed anyway, die in the cause of science instead of mere sanitation. Medical witnesses at the legislature have repeatedly emphasized that general anesthesia is always employed in animal operations Furthermore, clerical views from all major denominations have contended that no theological tenets oppose regulated vivisection Perhaps the waiting period in the pound for captured canines should be extended from seven to fourteen days, and certainly irresponsible personal experiments should be restricted to discourage such dog torturing as occured...