Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been ringing since long before your time and mine, and it probably will be ringing long after we are gone", was Mr. C. R. Apted's comment yesterday when a CRIMSON reporter broached the subject of the seven o'clock bell...
...United Mine Workers of America opened their biennial convention at Indianapolis, and the public turned an interested ear to find out whether there would be a soft coal strike in the coming Spring. The question was not definitely decided in the first week's session. But in the repeated triumphs of President John L. Lewis, there were indications of "no strike...
...Navy is now intent on its own maneuvers. The object of the present dash is to carry out such) a maneuver as would be required if our fleet left Panama to meet an enemy approaching across the Atlantic. The aim is to convoy a group of repair ships, mine sweepers, food, fuel, hospital ships and the aeroplane carrier Langley to Culebra in order to establish an advance base. Then, in case of a battle, the fleet would not be obliged to return all the way to Panama for refueling...
...Rebels do nothing more offensive than to warn merchant vessels that they enter the port at their own risk. This lifting of the blockade occurred about the time that the U. S. S. Richmond arrived on the scene. ¶ The Rebels gave notice that they were about to mine the ports of Vera Cruz, Frontera and Puerto Mexico. The U. S. State Department protested. The cruiser Omaha and six destroyers arrived on the scene. The Rebels abandoned their mine laying scheme. ¶ The Rebels were reinforced by 1,500 Obregonistas, who deserted from the Federal forces. They were all armed...
...supply wages for thousands of government employees, whose work was to devise new methods of increasing their personal property. Even the soldier who had faced several years of hell on frozen peaks was the object of ridicule, jeers, and often the victim of brutal assaults. A brother of mine, who was an officer in the Italian army at that time, wrote to me from Milan that to wear a uniform on the streets in the daytime was to invite serious trouble, while a similar act at night was intense flirtation with death...