Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Undoubtedly, no malicious intent was meant by the publishers . . . However, good-humored as one can possibly be, everything has a saturation point, and mine is near at hand. It takes years to mold a good character, and usually one joke can't tear it down...
...books], it has tended to do so less and less as I have grown older ... I might point out that evil is a reality in this world of ours, that the people I set out to paint are fallen creatures . . . that no artist should force his talent, and that mine does not easily breathe the air of sublimity...
...dough of mine...
...Friends of Mine." At the University of Nebraska, Johnson enrolled as a premed, but his heart belonged just as much to Latin and Greek. He devoured Tacitus and Thucydides ("Two friends of mine"), took up Sanskrit, learned German, threw himself into the Populist cause. He also submitted to the drilling of a stiff-backed young military instructor named John J. Pershing.* By the time the Spanish-American War broke out, Johnson was ready to enlist...
...which has no special name, is interesting to scientists because active volcanos in the western Pacific east of Hawaii are rare; this is the first that has erupted in historical times. But it probably will not last as long as Mexico's other new volcano, the tourist gold mine Paricutin...