Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...participate in ceremonies attendant upon the retirement of officers and enlisted men, as I have done numberles times, gives one no adequate idea of his feelings when his own turn comes. But even in severing an association that has lasted as long as mine, there are some compensations. I can look back over the period and see the evolution of the Army from a small body of highly specialized Indian fighters, for the most part remote physically and mentally from the great mass of their fellow-citizens, into the Army of today?Regulars, National Guard and Reserves?two-thirds...
...noble. But, unhappily, he made it pos sible for people of infinitely inferior mind and character to express in music their less exalted passions and more vul- gar emotions. . . . He made possible such masterpieces of popular art as You Made Me Love You and That Old Black Mammy of Mine. The corrup- tion of the best too often becomes the worst; 'lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds...
...years ago, in June, 21 non-union miners were massacred by strikers at a coal mine near the town...
William B. Wilson, a member of the Democratic National Committee, one-time member of the Executive Board of the United Mine Workers and one-time Secretary of Labor, wrote to Mr. Gompers on Mr. Davis's behalf. He declared that Mr. Davis deserved Labor's support because...
...medium of expression. It was four years later still before he showed his manuscript to anyone. On a voyage to Australia aboard the Torrens, he had, as passenger, a Cambridge man. Conrad asked him: "Would it bore you very much reading a manuscript in a handwriting like mine...