Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your reporting of my article on free-feeding pregnant women [TIME, Sept. 5] . . . has led a number of women to feel that if they were pregnant patients of mine they would be happy, but fat. Preferring not to be fat, they would not care to be patients of mine, and this, as you can well understand, is serious. Nowhere in your story could I find anything to ... explain, as was proved in my original article, that despite free-feeding, the average gain and the average retained weight after pregnancy is the same as the accepted standards...
Once upon a time there were three ambitious men in the United Mine Workers. John L. Lewis kicked out William Green, and then there were two. John L. Lewis had a falling out with Philip Murray and then there...
Said the bridegroom: "If I signed any such agreement, the effect of it was not realized by me. I was willing to participate in a wedding ceremony in accordance with my wife's faith and she felt the same about mine." Excommunicated Claire made no comment at all. The archdiocese hinted that she could be reinstated in the Roman Catholic Church if she made a confession of error and did proper penance...
Notably of the mine run is Harold Robbins' The Dream Merchants, which begins promisingly as a closely documented account of the rise of a Jewish storekeeper to movie power but quickly subsides to a spun-sugar saga of love, virtue and clever financing, all triumphant. Where Author Robbins writes as chronicler he has interesting things to say; where he begins to function as novelist he is simply depressing...
...your team, I'll run mine," was the reply. The next play went over Byrne, who was carried off the field, dead...