Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shop and looked down at it later with savage Nordic melancholy. In The Wild Duck he wrote about a man who was the enemy of most people because he told the truth, even when truth-telling was tantamount to telling tales. Gregers Werle, the son of a rich Norwegian mine-owner, suspected that his libertine father had disposed of an old mistress by marrying her to Hialmar Ekdal, the son of a man whom the libertine had ruined. Gregers Werle tattles to Hialmar Ekdal, who is much too little a fool to disbelieve him. Knowing that his adolescent daughter...
...human being. He transformed the State prison from a place of horror into a university, had the prisoners examined medically and treated in line with modern scientific knowledge. He developed a splendid system of roads throughout the State. He made the big corporations obey the safety laws in the mines and reduced mine accidents to a negligible quantity. He has been absolutely fair to labor. He has been constructive and forward-looking...
...Rumania stands. . . . Rumania, the country I love and have to live for, stands and stands! ... I am the link with the past-the one still on guard. . . . Rumania and I are one. No joys, no griefs can come to Rumania that are not mine...
...making her charge, Mrs. Lewis quoted, side by side, dozens and dozens of paragraphs and sentences from her book and Mr. Dreiser's, which were practically identical* But, said Mrs. Lewis: "I want to reiterate that Mr. Dreiser's book as a whole and mine as a whole have numerous important differences. We do not arrive at the same conclusions regarding the Soviet experiment. . . . What strikes me as peculiar in the whole affair is that the passages in question deal with precisely those things which I should have thought a novelist would wish to describe...
...years ago, copper smelting furnaces were loaded from the top and by hand. Each furnace, filled to capacity, held only 240 tons. These facts, known to all miners, were particularly familiar to a vagabond prospector, George Carson, called the "Desert Rat." For 23 years, he had wandered from mine to mine, pursuing an idea. The idea was a smelter which men could load from the side, which might hold twice or three times as much ore as the old top-charging furnace...