Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were not entitled to diplomatic police protection. It is, therefore, futile for the Bolsheviki to accuse the Swiss of negligence. Conradi had a personal grievance against the Communists of Russia. His father and uncle were the victims of Bolsheviki cruelty. He therefore acted on the principle of " Vengeance is mine; I will repay! " And he did repay. There seems nothing of international importance attached to the unfortunate and regrettable death of M. Vorovsky...
...French enter a mining district, with machine guns, tanks, and all the other appurtenances of war, the whistles in the town are blown, and when the French troops come up, they are met by the entire population who merely stand around with folded arms and calmly watch the movements of the aggressors. Naturally the troops cannot fire on such a gathering, and they are also unsuccessful in getting work out of the Germans. The French are spending 500,000,000 francs a month in the Ruhr, or the equivalent of a million dollars a day, and at present they have...
...that black borderland which, so far as we know, edges eternity". Then, in an article written just before an operation which proved fatal to him, he tells of the various ways in which he had previously met death:--by falling down an elevator shaft, from the effects of a mine explosion, from a shell-wound, from anaesthetic, and from loss of blood. But every time the return to life proved more painful to him than the leaving of it. At last he was able to look forward to real death with composure, and was frankly unable to see what...
...Stumm brothers, also ex-mine owners in Lorraine. They still own metal factories in Germany...
...second date is August 31 when the agreement between the operators and the United Mine Workers in the anthracite regions terminates. If the Coal Commission has not damned either the operators or the union in its data (that is, if the responsibility for the coal problem seems to be about evenly distributed in the Commission's opinion) we will be faced with a capital and labor battle with both sides evenly matched. Neither side will be able to use the Commission's report as propaganda, and the issue will be decided by relative strength...