Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Howes Meade, genial 34-year-old Republican attorney from Kentucky's mine-pocked Seventh District, where he soundly beat ailing Military Affairs Chairman Andy May, once the miners' darling, but reduced to political silence since the Garsson investigation...
...offered her an audition, she turned it down, saying that she was too young. "I knew I wasn't ready. If the prophet Moses had come down and asked me to sing at the Met I would have said, 'You run your business, I'll run mine.' " She went back to St. Louis and Madame Karst...
...Church of England, as the Presbyterians and the Methodists love their churches. It is, I think, not possible yet nor desirable that any church should merge its identity in a newly constituted union. What I desire is that I should be able freely to enter their churches and they mine in the sacrament of the Lord, that His life may freely circulate between us. Cannot we grow to full communion with each other before we start to write a constitution? Have we the wisdom, the humility, the love and the spirit of Christ sufficient for such a venture...
...Baker's book is a gold mine of hints to the legless (of whom there are some 128,000 in the U.S.). Samples: 1) watch out for dogs-they are liable to get a paw caught in your crutch; 2) the most efficient and attractive crutch position is dead vertical; 3) a legless person can always make a sucker of a carnival weight guesser; 4) a good way to relieve the boredom of answering nosybodies who want to know how it happened is to tell whoppers (a favorite Baker whopper: her leg got frozen stiff in skiing...
...mine-run banker in St. Louis before Old Pal Harry Truman brought him to the White House as naval aide, Vardaman lately had been doing much speaking out against Federal Reserve credit curbs and the Board's ban on margin trading. But what few listeners have realized is that Jake Vardaman claims to put out such thoughts "as an individual." He does not feel that he is laying down FRB policy. But his "unofficial" opposition has created plenty of confusion...