Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country, badly confused, seemed eager to take its cue from him. But the President was not yet ready to play the prompter's part. To persistent questions, he smilingly retorted that the real spot news on NRA was not in Washington but out in the country, in mine and factory, in shop and office where the first effects of the Supreme Court's ruling were already evident (see p. 63). When someone asked specifically about General Johnson's White House visit, the President scoffed: "Spotted news...
...When the conversational medicine ball had been thrown back and forth enough this Sunday morning, we decided to put the question of the price for eating an earthworm to the test. Upshot: a friend of mine (incidentally a Harvard student-perhaps that explains it) totally consumed a fairly good-sized angleworm for the small fee of 25?. We concluded that Dr. Thorndike's price of $100 was a little high. Would he be interested...
...Named by Ben Halliday of Pony Express fame, after his Ophir gold mine, which he had named for the legendary Biblical land of Ophir whence King Solomon got some of his gold...
...popped its red head over the San Bernardino Mountains early one morning last week, the main strength of the U.S. Fleet stood out of San Pedro and San Diego harbors, went nodding up the California coast with torpedo-shaped, mine-cutting paravanes hung from every grey prow and all hands at battle stations. In the preceding preparatory weeks the West Coast had thrilled to the report that, although not a shot was to be fired, the Fleet had taken aboard almost its wartime ammunition load. Thus began Fleet Problem XVI, grandest Naval maneuver in U.S. history. whose scene and scope...
...only in subways does Mrs. Tubman sing the National Anthem. She has sung it in an Army blimp 3,000 ft. in the air, in a submarine, a coal mine, on ships at sea, in jails, insane asylums, "on the highest mountains in Switzerland," over the radio, in schools, churches and homes. Says she: "I'm always the first to sing it. I never let anyone get ahead...