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Word: miners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miner in Chester-le-Street, England explained to Princess Margaret why the men had given her such a rousing reception on her inspection trip to the local rehabilitation center: "Because of your tour, we are getting extra free beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: All in Good Time | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...shirt, wilted under Penney's persuasion: "I'm a no-good of a salesman unless I can sell you two." He did. Penney made his way around the store, sat down to fit a shy young girl with a pair of shoes (no sale), happily spotted a miner wearing Penney overalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Sentimental Journey | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Easy to Fool. Under half a dozen aliases, buxom Mrs. Walker, an amateur miner who liked to be called Rimrock Annie, had a long history of falling on slippery floors, being bowled over by cars, being knocked down by people. In the process, she apparently fooled many doctors and quite a few insurance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Tumbler | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Honorable Hugh Stanley, 24, brother of the Earl of Derby, informed Fox-Strangways that Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, rabid Socialist and ex-coal-miner, was being entertained at White's. Bevan's host was Sir John Slessor, Air Chief Marshal, who had invited the minister in for a drink after a meeting on R.A.F. manpower problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Damned Odd Thing to Do | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...poor coal miner, Graves was born (1896) in Warrensburg Mo., left school to work in the mines at ten, switched to sheepherding, put in a stint in the Wyoming oilfields. But Graves was never satisfied to work for someone else. He saved enough money to buy a truck, parlayed it into a fleet of seven and sold out for $60,000. With the cash he bought a sheep ranch of his own-and was wiped out when a blizzard killed his herd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATTLE: The Last Roundup | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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