Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In the same era Harry Byrd was a freshman in the Virginia State Senate. He did not smoke and he did not drink (to this day his good natured brother Tom generally takes two drinks when they are passed, saying, "this is mine and this is Harry's") and he was not spectacular. But the time came when he led the Democrats in the State Senate and soundly trounced C. Bascom Slemp's Republicans. Finally in 1925, he was elected Governor and gave Virginia a new deal-of the kind...
Fifty years ago when David John Lewis was an undersized boy of 16 working in a Pennsylvania coal mine, he could, like many another, neither read nor write...
...Middle Ages are a literary mine whose rich veins are still far from exhausted, are now beginning again to be reworked. Nineteenth Century romancers like Walter Scott and Charles Reade brought up so many tons of ore that the market for a time was overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted...
Cooper is an author who returns to the ancestral mansion in Connecticut after failing in New York. In the Polacks, frugal tobacco farmers who have turned the supposedly useless valley into a gold mine, he finds many new things, new inspiration, new power, and, incidentally, a new love in Anna Sten who will make a good wife because she can "work like two womans." Tarka finds himself in the mood to write the following note. "Not like snow. Very sorry. Not like Connecticut. Me go. Very sorry. Tarka...
Twenty-four hours later, at Alapayevsk, six more captive Romanovs and two of their faithful followers met an even harder death. Grand Dukes Sergius, Ivan, Constantine and Igor, Grand Duchess Elisabeth, Prince Vladimir Paley, Secretary Romez, Nun Barbara Yakovleva were taken to an abandoned mine and thrown down a shaft. According to Investigator Sokolov, all were still alive after the fall except Sergius. The hand-grenades that were thrown down after them killed Romez; the rest died more lingeringly...