Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures, to which admission is free but by ticket only, have been given annually at Huntington Hall, in the Rogers Building, 491 Boylston Street, Boston. The five Harvard professors to lecture are E. S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, F. N. Robinson '09, professor of English, L. M. S. Miner, dean of the Dental School and professor of Clinical Oral Surgery, C. M. Campbell, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, and Elton Mayo, professor or Industrial Research...
Kentucky. At Pineville a deputy sheriff was killed, a miner stabbed during the voting. Impounded by law for 24 hours, the ballots indicated that Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley, a Wet convert had won renomination over George B. Martin, oldtime Wet, thus breaking a 30-year jinx against Kentucky Senators succeeding themselves. The State's failure to reduce its House seats from eleven to nine required the nomination of all Congressional candidates as Representatives-at-large...
...southern Alabama hill town. In each community the inhabitants were free of colds until strangers arrived. The experience of Spitsbergen where men mine coal all year round was sharply defined. From November when the last heat departed until the day after the first boat arrived the next spring no miner had a cold, although they lived in hot, stuffy barracks, went out into blustery cold every morning, picked coal at temperatures below freezing and returned tired each evening to their steaming quarters. Their healthiness suggested that drafts, bad weather, or freezing have nothing per se to do with common colds...
...mother sorrowfully tells him what must be his life's philosophy: "It's not what tha wants, lad, it's what tha's got to do." At 14 he wants to earn some money for his family, but he has got to become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse the darkness into which they have been born. There is a certain amount of camaraderie below the ground, but these undergroundhogs are mostly swine above...
With careful factual detail Author Boden tells of a Derbyshire miner's life, with all its withering working details. The narrow tunnels, the coal seams in which men pick lying sideways all day, the half-blind ponies, the constant fear make up a pretty picture of hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin...