Word: minerality
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...Wilbur took the president's chair in 1916. He immediately busied himself?U. S. Food Administration, California Council of Defense. . . . When Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding was yet candidate for the U. S. Presidency, Dr. Wilbur supported him publicly. At President Harding's death, Dr. Wilbur, with Dr. Charles Miner Cooper, performed the autopsy and prepared the statement of his physical condition "as it affected his last illness and his sudden death in 1923." At that time Dr. Wilbur was President of the American Medical Association, a potent position during a presidential campaign year. He might have had a Cabinet appointment...
...spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave, Ky., one Willie Nelson, slim farm lad, slipped into the digging and extricated Rip, prized foxhound owned by one R. V. Kelly, sporting bachelor. After dozing beside a fire and refusing to pose for press photographers, Rip died of pneumonia. His rescue...
...found upon the name of Thomas S. Lament, son of famed Morgan Partner Lament, upon the name of a Cabot, a Frothingham, a Lee, a Lothrop, a Lowell, a Sedgwick. They do not all know one another. But all know Powers Hapgood. He is their only coal miner. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, where Yale is the most popular college...
Britain's "million miner coal strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.) seemed on the verge of collapse last week as the number of miners who have repudiated their leaders and returned to work swelled to 200,000. Significant developments: Parliament convened for a short special session to extend the Emergency Power Act which has been kept in force during the entire 23 weeks of the strike. Premier Baldwin declared before the Commons that his Government had come virtually to the end of its powers of mediation in the strike. He indicated that if the miners would return to work...
Plan. "Winnie" proposed that: 1) a three-cornered conference should be held between the miners, the owners, and the Government at which the broad principles of miner-owner relationships should be fixed and agreed upon by all. 2) Subsequently regional agreements should be made in each mining district, taking local conditions into account but harmonizing with the broad principles of the national agreement...