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Word: miner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states: "I am a miner"-but the tapering, lily-white hand that he so proudly displays in your picture seems to belie the fact that he has ever done a day's manual labor in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Bevan's voice there were echoes of sad Welsh valleys as he said slowly: "I am a miner." Then, louder: "I was brought up in a mining family in a mining area and a steel area." Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of the Giants | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Saxophone & Type. A onetime coal-miner, logger, ranch hand, construction worker and saxophone player, Tennessee-born Will Harrison broke into journalism in Gallup, N. Mex., where he was stranded in 1932. He worked without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First 100 Years | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Saxophone & Type. A onetime coal-miner, logger, ranch hand, construction worker and saxophone player, Tennessee-born Will Harrison broke into journalism in Gallup, N. Mex., where he was stranded in 1932. He worked without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First 100 Years | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Bolivia's Roman Catholic clergy tends to regard such activity as an intrusion into its vineyard. Many an Indian miner has been told that the Protestants are "messengers of the devil"; more sophisticated Bolivians have been warned that the evangelistas are advance agents of Yankee imperialism. From the sowing of such seed came evil fruit last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Murder in the Vineyard | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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