Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring vacation in Florida and if you hadn't noticed that every other person is wearing a tan (mine's a Group III) these days then you probably bump into a lot of trees...
...other four schools were left in a wake of peels as Malone and partner romped to an easy triumph. How did they imaginatively use the banana? Your guess is almost as good as mine, but as Malone stated last night while munching on a Chiquita, "I've only got a year and a quarter left of school excuses. If I ever did anything like that after college, they'd arrest...
...years. The supply is adequate to carry the U.S. well past the transition from the end of the oil and gas era to new, possibly not yet discovered sources of energy in the 2000s. The program will count on the profit consciousness of the coal companies, which now mine about 655 million tons per year, as a spur to increasing production to 1 billion or more tons annually...
...sentimentality there is none. Hine's subjects are not "noble workers," abstractions of a class seen from above. They are people living their lives, claiming the viewer's attention only by their irreducible concreteness. This was especially true of Mine's great polemical record-photographs - the work he did for the National Child Labor Committee after 1908. In the course of it, Hine traversed America, disguising himself and employing all sorts of subterfuges (his friends remembered him as a consummate role player) to get his camera into the factories, mills and mines where children worked. "I have...
Daring Calligraphy. Mine's work was not all indictment. It had its celebratory side as well, and this came to the fore in the 1920s. It took the form of a series of dramatically affirmative "work portraits," designed, as Hine un abashedly put it, for "social uplift," such as Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925. He hit the peak of this imagery in 1930, when he began to document that marvel of audacity and skill, the construction of the Empire State Building. As Trachtenberg remarks, Hine's Empire State series, with its daring calligraphy of girders and Icarian figures treading...