Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congress had empowered the committee to make peace "on the best terms to be had." When the miners thus sensationally repudiated last week both their delegates' congress and executive committee, the committee announced in despair that the strike will have to drag on until the various local mine unions are willing to make peace individually with their employers. Over 350,000 miners have already done this; and the "coal strike" as a national unity seemed to be all but fading from the news last week...
Arnoldo Lindi (see above) was once a breaker boy in a Swedish iron mine; he ran away, shipped before the mast, landed in Boston. There he moved furniture, went in for pugilism, sang in his spare lime with a Swedish choral society. True to tradition a rich man heard him, sent him abroad for a musical education, where he has since had successful engagements. Last week he had his Chicago debut...
...group of, how many is it now, 85,000? . . . My filled-in coupon misrepresents a situation to this extent: there is "in my family" a "female TIME reader aged 50 to 60"-my wife. But as you probably know, she receives her own subscription at the house; I, mine at my office...
...smooth-skinned gentleman with bushy dark beard and silky hair then added: "I go in a year's time. I shall take every English musician to America with me I can. . . . A friend of mine in California spends as much on an orchestra as we spend in the whole of England. The future home of English opera is the United States...
...remembered that belief in the legitimate use of wine--and of New England rum--seems pretty well marked in successive generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that Longfellow is "the first figure in American letters to discover Europe as a rich mine." What of Irving, and was even Irving the first? Is it wise to say that the poet projected a drama on Cotton Mather but nothing came of it (pp. 226-227), when that redoubtable Puritan figures as he does in the New England Tragedies? And, surely, Joel Barlow's Columbiad, even though...