Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree in chemical engineering, but he could not find engineering work at home. He went to Germany and labored in a coal mine, then came to the U.S. in 1968. He had $50. He found a job as a welder, earned $5 an hour, and saved almost...
...done everything in its power to keep America in perpetual dependence. Guided by the principle of mercantilism, whose chief objective is the enrichment of the mother country at the expense of its colonies, Britain's leaders tried to make America serve as the Empire's farm, forest and mine, while Britain was to be its factory, financier and protector. Parliament's decrees that certain American exports could be shipped only to or through Britain cut into the profit on such products as tobacco, America's No. 1 export (102 million pounds last year). When colonial hat and wool manufacturers started...
...reservoir of 10 by 60 by 140 feet holding 628,000 gallons. The rest was invested in the key part of Colics' scheme: a steam engine. Although there are a number of these devices in Europe, only one was ever shipped to America, to pump out a copper mine in New Jersey, and it was destroyed by fire in 1773. Colles decided, however, to build one of his own, and the 18-inch cylinder was cast in New York last year. (Said the New York Gazetteer: "The first performance of the kind ever attempted in America and allowed...
...confute your second-sight; We shall be slaves and you a knight; These things must come; but I divine They 'II come not in your day, or mine...
...improvink alvays mekink batter? I esk! I enser−I got de fonny fillink no. Like in my job−cotter mens cloths−seemple is bast. Rosten (here I'm mekink dip bow to mine creator) is dis time cotting too fency. Is mekink too many gegs an' stratching averyt'ing ot too lonk...