Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chilblains, not sunburn, is what Eve would have gotten if her Eden was anything like mine," said Miss Fannie Brice in a recent backstage interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Miss Brice was appearing in the realistic Eden staged at the Colonial Theatre by the Music Box Review. While removing the grease paints which, with certain arboreal draperies comprised the most striking part of her costume as Eve in the Colonial Eden. Miss Brice subjected the growing tendency of theatre managers toward economizing on fuel to close scrutiny and rigid censure...
Seven hundred delegates representing 158,000 anthracite miners assembled. One Communist among them was detected and ousted when he refused to abjure his heresy. President Lewis of the Mine Workers' Union and his aides explained the agreement. A standing vote was taken. Only two men voted against the agreement...
...night there had been one fatality. One man had walked into a pocket of black damp that had accumulated in a long empty mine, but many others returned home happy-in two weeks there would be a pay check...
Berg Burning. At Montreal, Dr. Howard T. Barnes, Physics Professor at McGill University, announced an expedition in June to Greenland to experiment with heat mines on icebergs. After 30 years of ice research, he has concocted a chemical he calls "thermit," nonexplosive, non-inflammable, rendered dangerous only by contact with ice, when it develops intense heat in a few seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting...
Later that day a bellboy brought a sealed envelope to the President of the United Mine Workers. Mr. Lewis tore open the telegram, read it and grinned. He turned to the strike leaders and reporters who were gathered around. "Listen to this: 'Desire get married the day strike is settled. Advise...