Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican, was first asked to run for the legislature against a Democrat named Charley Malone. Gus was horrified. Says he: "Charley was a good friend of mine. As far as I could see, he was doing a good job." But two years later he ran, was elected, has spent 100 days a year in the Iowa legislature ever since. Part of that time he has been chairman of the powerful appropriations committee and has been a member of 15 committees at once...
...brands on straw-thatched roofs. The Ukrainians aped the nations by demanding impossible reparations; from little Bukowsko they demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses and a cow for which he had paid 8,000 zlotys ($80). Kinglarski, who was wrapped in burlap bags, waved an old U.S. passport. "I had beautiful clothes in America," he said...
...cheapest one I could apply for as a non-scholarship student was $137.50. Thus my roommate and I pay $275 for four months leasage of a living room, two sleeping nooks, and a semi-private bath. That is about $69 a month rent-more than several married friends of mine pay for four room apartments in privately owned buildings much newer than the century old Yard dormitories. Yet the authorities of Harvard University have the nerve to announce a series of rent increases varying from ten to as high as fifty-two percent...
...Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME...
...Preacher Gudger," said Ma Conroy, "this here oldest gal o' mine name Roma-jean purely loves to sing. She kin sing a church song low and she kin line it out sweet. . . . Preacher, we purely need that two bits a Sunday you pay yore choir singers. If you can use her I reckon the good Lord shore will love...