Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heat Mines. An unassuming, bespectacled gentleman, John L. Hodgson, mining engineer, asked his hearers to realize how crude were the surface scrapings made by the earliest coal "miners" in comparison with the vast black honeycombs modern machinery digs-and then to realize how picayune were present-day coal mines compared to the shafts that might some day be driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could...
...They all lay down sooner or later." I'll never let TIME forget that phrase of mine, not so long as I catch it like I do this week. Gracious sakes alive oh me oh my! What a sweet lot of old ladies you must think your readers are, to publish in your SPORT department this description of bowling on the green! [TIME, Aug. 29.] Bowling on the green !! Who called that a sport anyhow ? It sounds like old ladies' stuff to me, rolling little balls on the ground and not even socking anything with them! And then...
...discovery, in a coal mine on the windswept mountain slopes near Billings, Mont., of a fossil molar tooth of human appearance, mixed in with fossil clams and lizards known to belong in the Eocene period, 50 to 60 million years ago, caused a great deal of newspaper talk last autumn. But experts were inclined to view the molar as that of euprotogonia, doglike Eocene quadruped with manlike teeth in its bearlike-horselike head...
...cancel a paid subscription appeals to me as a weak, silly gesture but a high-school teacher dealing with current events has considerable opportunity to make friends or enemies for magazines. I can assure you that your circulation will not increase through any influence of mine unless I can be convinced that your standards are higher than the issues of your magazine I have had up to date have led me to believe...
Edward of Wales visited a coal mine in Lancashire, donned miner's garb, descended 400 feet, pecked at coal strata with a pneumatic drill, emerged dirty-faced...