Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire particularly to express in the most emphatic and precise terms that under no circumstances whatever is any German, whether a relation of mine or otherwise, to have any voice or right in or over the guardianship or bringing up of my children...
...Upon Mindoro ("Mine of Gold"), now known as "Malaria Island," are situated the famed Havemeyer sugar plantations. †Once upon a time there eloped from Cavite, ancient Spanish Philippine settlement, a nun and a friar who were pursued by the high sheriff (el corregidor). The nun was caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns...
...years old." Illinoisans were amused, amazed, intrigued. "Boss" Brennan had jumped from the back room to the stump. What was he doing running for public office? All his life he had avoided it. Born in Cayuga County,* New York, in 1865, he earned his first dollar in a coal mine in Braidwood, 111. Miners probably decided that George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost a leg. A switchman was absent on a post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train. His foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there...
Mules Near the black mouth of the prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...
...last felon shambled from view, the warden sat down heavily, reflected he was growing old, gazed vague-eyed at a message handed to him by his deputy. In dirty pencil it read that they had barricaded themselves in the mine, that they held the 13 unarmed guards as hostages, that they would live on mule meat, that they would surrender only on the following conditions...