Word: miner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long heralded in dental circles, the opening of the new Harvard School of Dental Medicine was announced yesterday by Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean of the Dental School. The first class, largely experimental in nature, consists of nine carefully selected students from widely separated parts of the country...
Occupying a total of five years, the new course will integrate medical and dental training and lead to both the M.D. and D.M.D. degrees. The opening, according to Dean Miner, "marks the beginning of an important experiment in American dental education. The student will receive the basic training in medicine required of all physicians without sacrificing the essential training in the restorative and reparative techniques of dentistry...
Last week, when ex-Miner Bevan stood up in the House to talk about coal, he went as accurately and painfully as a dentist's drill to the sorest spot in the British Government's war-labor policy...
...that the Government hoped to be mining all the coal it needed by the end of next winter. As it was, production was 25,000,000 tons short of the 200,000,000-ton goal for the year. This was too much for Bevan. He knew that 75,000 miners had left the pits in the last year, that the Army had taken 50,000 of them. He knew also that less than one-tenth of them had been replaced by drafted labor, that the Army had refused to release miner-soldiers when coal production dropped alarmingly...
...distrust of both these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability to keep his object firmly in view"), Victor Gollancz (cofounder of Britain's Left Book Club), Professor Harold Laski...