Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe distance. Even more gruesome is the sight of a miner tamping a highly explosive dynamite cap with his teeth. The foreman is to blame if he permits anyone to work in rooms with insufficient propping or to ride on trips of cars meant only to convey coal. If mines unsafe because of water trouble, poor roof, improper ventilation, and other such deficiencies, are permitted to be worked, the district inspector of mines is in this case at fault. If the owner himself does not see that his mine is decently inspected and that his men are competent...
...obvious. In the first place, the miner himself must be educated by convincing him that an attempt to save too much time is certain to result in calamity. Next, competent and conscientious foremen and superintendants must be chosen. Since the government itself is responsible for the efficiency of its mine inspectors, inspectorship examinations should be made stricter. The operator ought to see that it is for his own good as well as that of his men's that his mine is a safe one. It is doubtful if the safety laws themselves need be changed except in a few cases...
...When she appeared at the Southampton Street Fair ... in a hindu costume. . . .' Secondly, Miss Abby Rockefeller, 'pretty granddaughter of the oil emperor,' who is 'well chaperoned by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' Thirdly, Miss Alice De Lamar, late mine operator's daughter, ' worth ten millions in her own right' and ' reputed a beauty.' Fourthly, Miss Alice Muriel Astor ('five millions is not such a lot with which to model a kingdom,' said the News, ' but it would be sufficient to finance...
...objections made to Mr. Underwood has been that he is not sufficiently Dry. But he declared himself for the enforcement of prohibition, saying: "No man shall say of me, if the authority shall be placed in this hand of mine, that men in high office are not trying to enforce...
...specialist said that upon my face and upon that of Miss Mary Pickford reposed the two most perfect nasal appendages in the world. 'Miss Pickford's,' said the doctor, 'is approached only by that of Diana, Roman goddess of the chase.' He stated that mine was 'of the perfect Grecian type...