Word: minerality
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Dentists smiled at such punning, wished it would stop. As he was about to turn over A. D. A.'s presidency to Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson ('"Roy") Miner of Boston last week, Dr. George Ben Winter, St. Louis exodontist (specialist in tooth pulling), observed that only a hundred years ago all U. S. dentists were "drawn from the ranks of the artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths and barbers." Since then dentists have improved in knowledge, skill and culture. Yet so halting has been their social progress that an official A. D. A. committee last week was obliged to report...
...motive power he had short oars. A miner's lamp attached to his steel helmet, a searchlight on the boat's prow, an under water lamp hanging overside, all served by electric storage battery, were to supply light for close inspection of the tunnel walls. All electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers...
Died. Sir Lionel Phillips, 81, South African gold miner, longtime head of Rand Mines, Ltd.; in Capetown, Union of South Africa. In 1896 he and the late John Hays Hammond were condemned to death for complicity in the abortive Jameson Raid, freed after paying fines of $125,000 apiece...
...trapped miner was a trapped miner, and Superintendent Jones called his foreman, assembled timber, tackle and a squad of miners for the rescue. All that day and the following night the rescuers could hear faint sounds from Enoch Kuklinskie. They were afraid that wet clay dripping from the shaft walls would fill up the air holes in the rubble before they reached him. Next morning they got him free, hoisted him out of the shaft on a board...
...states were dining & dancing at the 39th annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers in Dallas, Tex. last week, the most original grocer in the U. S. was preparing to give housewives another exciting thrill in Memphis, Tenn. Name of that grocer was Clarence Saunders, a onetime miner who likes to wrestle with financial problems all night in a bathtub of hot water. Name of his latest merchandising excitement: Keedoozle Corp. Cried Keedoozler Saunders: "Within a year I'll be worth $10,000,000. I won't have that much on hand...