Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mine With the Iron Door...
Such are the fortunes of publishing. George Horace Lorimer celebrated his silver anniversary with a weekly which has made Cyrus H. K. Curtis several fortunes in cash. At the same time the Interpreter clutched at the thin red line of thinkers. To one the American public is a gold mine of appreciation; to the other it is a laggard...
Meanwhile Masanao Hanihara, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., speaking before the Japan Society in Manhattan stated: "Not only did we declare our intention at the time of the conclusion of the present commercial treaty of 1911 between your country and mine to exercise voluntary control over the coming to this country of our emigrants who are not desired here, but we have been most scrupulously and effectively carrying it out in deed...
...when it comes to maturer life, I find that the source of this quality described as courage is simply this--that I never stopped any attempts of mine because I looked forward to opposition. I was regardless of risks and opposition. I was eager to do something in the future. It was that part of my nature which, by its expression, enabled me to look forward and not back, to look out and not in. Now at the close of my life, I do not know any better advice to give to the graduates of Harvard College...
...literary heroine of the future will no longer have to depend in order to captivate her thousands, upon the questionable charms of a delicately tinted cheek, or the alluring curve of a car mine lip, if one can take stock in the theories of Professor Charles Lalo, of the Sorbonne, who has just published monumental treatise on "The Bankruptcy of Beauty." Professor Lalo asserts that "mere youth" presumably with its attendant attractions "must not hope to compete in the lists of gallantry with the riper charms of experience, conscious coquetry, and the maturer ability of self-abnegation...