Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass sheet. Pellets from detonators, directed into jars of water, shatter...
Shortly after this fracas, Dave Wilder, substitute goal made his only stop of the second period. It was a wicked close up by Miner, but Wilder cleared beautifully
HARVARD '39 NEWTON HIGH Stone, 1.w. r.w., Macleod Harding, c. c., Daniels Scalfe, r.w. 1.w., Miner Houghton, 1.d. r.d., Whitehead Foaron, 1.d. 1.d., Milner Irving, g. g., Buttrick...
...make that house look like a miner's shack!" cried Henry Clay Frick who thereupon spent $5,000,000 on the house to which the public was admitted last week. Even strolling in Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade with timorous, kindly Mrs. Frick, Frick's mind was constantly working up ways of outshining Carnegie. Frick could not make after-dinner speeches, pat newsboys on the head, or write essays on the virtue of goodness, but he knew how to buy & sell and he had instinctive taste. He set out to form the greatest private art collection...
...Modest Miner. Such stories of ogreish engineers are part of the now far-advanced Soviet Press effort to sell speedups to Russian workers as something of which they should be proud, while still picturing speedups as wicked in Capitalist countries. Recently 3,000 Stakhanovites of both sexes, including Comrade Alexei Stakhanov himself, were feted in Moscow by the Dictatorship and Joseph Stalin. Reported the official Pravda, "Stalin spoke briefly for about an hour...