Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agriculture Jardine, hitherto unknown as a humorist, replied: "So far as I know the horses and the cows as well as the mules are surviving the ordeal, some of them even kicking up their heels and showing a great deal of spirit. As for the goats-I still have mine...
...gigantic fund to relieve the distress caused among British miners by the collapse of their coal strike; 2) three bronze statues, totaling half a ton in weight, and displaying workers in attitudes of extreme revolutionary truculence; 3) an entire series of medals and commemorative placques for British mine leaders who took an outstanding part in the coal strike...
...care to help any magazine whose managers or editors put themselves down on an equality with Negroes and call them "Mr." and "Mrs." Do not send mine any longer than it is paid...
...Furthermore, the deportations are not in any sense acts of personal revenge or enmity, for I assure you that no personal or political enemy of mine is among the deported political agitators. Of 161 cases already judged 104 ap peals have been refused and, on the other hand, seven condemnations have been revoked and 16 reduced to shortened terms, while in 20 cases I have converted into mere formal warnings or admonitions the original deportation sentences...
...from friendships, and friendship is predicated upon time. One can become acquainted with many places and many people in this rapid world and in exactly the same way with scores of mountains and miles of trail, but with the satisfaction only, of numbers and of mileage. A colleague of mine used to say, "I go to a different place-every summer and exhaust the region." We never doubted that the region breathed a sigh of relief when he departed, but really he was more to be pitied. Burroughs did not weary of "Slabsides," Bolles of Chocorua, or Torrey of Franconia...