Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also troubled by the insistence on instant decision for Christ. As a young faculty friend of mine remarked to me at one of the Burr B sessions, "Dr. Graham makes a sacrament out of the decision for Christ." It becomes immediately apparent that there is no other way to religious commitment and any other pilgrimage is unacceptable. By any standards, this is a gross distortion of the nature of Christian commitment...
...oxygen furnaces cook steel four times faster than the best open-hearth furnaces, thus reducing costs by up to $8 per ton. J. & L. also saves money by using computers to handle everything from customers' orders to inventory control. It operates the most highly mechanized coal mine in the U.S. near Pittsburgh, led the way in sintering iron ore to make blast furnaces more productive...
...triumph of integration would result in the loss of those "race values"--the separation of powers and the rights of property, which he called the "first of human rights." "I uphold the rights of a Negro to buy a house from my neighbor," he said, "but I uphold mine to sell my house to whom I please...
...oddly manful squeak, T.R. advised all boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound in sight. After Yale ('22), he spent ten years working for Edison himself, eventually inherited a voxologist's gold mine-Edison's own early wax cylinders...
...Harvard Review's issue on consciousness-expanding drugs turned out to be a veritable gold mine, as the Review spread as far as the opium dens of Hong Kong. Anything following was bound to be something of an anti-climax, although the editors tried to soften the anticipated thud by focusing on Communist China, a topic fascinating in its own right. Yet the fall-winter edition of the Review is disappointing even by pre-drug issue standards...