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Word: minerally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreigner. In Brussels, Coal Miner Celestin Jadot's pension was cut because he hadn't worked long enough in Belgium -a shaft in which he had worked ten years extended into France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

S.O.P. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Judge Floyd Philbrick dismissed Mary S. Miner's petition for divorce after ruling that slapping one's wife on the backside does not constitute "cruel and inhuman treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Struck dumb in 1943 by an emotional disorder, Emilio Franco, a 35-year-old coal miner, took a ride on a Coney Island roller coaster, began screaming on the second dip. Back on solid ground, his first coherent words in five years were: "I feel sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli." In addition to nautical charm, it is loaded to the gunwales with deft and lively pictures of European life and manners-pictures which unroll as on sensitive film as Truant weaves her way across a continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Keel Over Europe | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Down the Middle. Manhattan's National City Bank warned that inflation was hurting the "middle class" to the point of undermining its "social and civic responsibility" and "creating the seeds of depression." Taking 1930 living standards as 100, the bank reckoned that the average coal miner was now up to 191, the auto worker to 132, the teacher to 109, while the small stockholder was down to 79, the rail executive to 78, the pensioner to 65, the wealthy stockholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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