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Word: minerally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better take another turn through memory lane and glance at Trilby's feet. You will find that they were shapely but not "tiny" as you say in your Kiki article. . . . Her shoes would have fitted that miner's daughter, Clementine, nicely. She had big teeth, a big mouth, and I'll bet she would have made a hit in The Outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Jeremiah? "Surely, there must be some balm in Gilead for a coal miner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Great Actor | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Shakespeare? "He is fearful of the night, of the ague and terror of the day. Mere words do not change his condition. Yet, words are all the miner has used so far, in his struggle to better his condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Great Actor | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...ultimatums. The operators, fearing that he might ask for bigger raises than they could balance with price rises, were almost eager to settle for the going 18½?-an-hour increase. But Lewis could not seem to bring himself to talk paychecks. Instead, he dramatized the need for a miner's "health and welfare fund," hinted that he might ask reduction of their current 54-hour work week to one of 35 hours-with no reduction in the current base wage of $63.50. He paraded his 30 U.M.W. district presidents for the operators, bawled out critical columnists, craftily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Great Actor | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Stop Hollering." Looking at this poor advertisement for the nationalization program which had swept them into office, some British Labor Ministers began to rant at the "selfish minority" of miners who were holding up British recovery. Not all their followers went with them. In a radio broadcast last month, black-haired, black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Jam Today, Little Tomorrow | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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