Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straight on what the weekend holds in store. I am forced modestly to admit that I was pretty good last week. The amount of money I saved Princeton men (I'm not one to bear grudge) ran into four figures, not counting dollar sings and decimal points. Mine has well been called the most sensational comeback since Sheridan's return to the Union army at Winchester. (N.B.--All historical references are supplied by Joe, Jr, a bright little chap...
Miss Earle who has a rich mine of culture has worked it for its most lavish production. She has exploited her vast knowledge of the English vocabulary to a staggering degree. In so doing the length of verse is often subjected to the cause of an extra-size word or two, thus throwing the reader completely out of step. Her lines are vigorous, robust, even Englishly athletic...
...Connecticut afternoons, ever intent on the elusive snipe. Garbed in sundry clothing and an umbrella slickers were then a practically unknown territory, we would roam through the bills, little dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just why, I don't know) that a friend of mine was telling me only the other day of a little incident which befell him on an European tour. It seems that there were three men, an Irishman, a Scotchman, and a (pardon...
...Valentines, N. J., own clay beds; mine, grind and mix various ingredients; press, slice into blocks, dried by air and warm draft; have a full yard of dirty red igloo-like kilns and, in short, practically all of the other things referred to in the description of the Harbison-Walker plant...
...According to many, and Conservatives are numbered among them, he has. These critics point out that the "P. M.'s" dilatory attitude during the general strike and coal strike cost the nation millions of pounds. More important, since the strike virtually nothing has been done to force the mine owners to reorganize their industry-the most badly needed reform in the country, by common consent...