Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson cross country forced were stunned yesterday by Rhode Island State, traditional powerhouse, when the first ten men to cross the finish mine were all Rams. The final score was a perfect one, Rhode Island State 15, Harvard 50. The race was run over a fast course at Franklin Park...
When World War II came, Laguerre was in France on political assignments for the London press and Paris-Soir, He was mobilized and sent into the Maginot line. He spent seven days on the beach at Dunkirk before being evacuated aboard a French destroyer, which promptly struck a mine and blew up. Fished out of the North Sea by a British destroyer, he was taken to England and given his choice of repatriation or joining the Free French forces. He chose General Charles de Gaulle, later became his liaison man with the English-language press in North Africa, Italy...
...replied that he had, but that he had not taken them very seriously. Eva persisted: "How much would you take, to allow you a profit?" Agusti named the fat figure of 6,000,000 pesos ($1,254,600). "As of right now," said Evita, "Noticias is mine...
...miners are poor individually, collectively they are rich. Last week their rich union, the United Mine Workers of America, announced that a research project financed by its welfare fund had at last done something for victims of silicosis. The work was carried out by a team from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, led by Dr. Burgess L. Gordon. The key discovery-how to get healing drugs into silicotic lungs-was made by Dr. Hurley L. Motley...
...Philadelphia and in a clinic in the heart of hard coal country, Dr. Motley tried this apparatus on 500 silicotic miners. All of them reported various degrees of relief. But a partial cure is not enough. Soon the United Mine Workers will send research teams down into the mines to find out if silicosis can also be prevented...