Word: mines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later, a little man, almost buried in a great shock of hair and beard, came up from Colorado and began to deepen the Butte pits. William A. Clark learned his trade in a quartz mine and lost his savings in a gold mine. In Butte, he dug for copper. Gold miners, seeing his wagons start out on their 400-mile trek to the nearest railroad at Corinne, Utah, laughed aloud. "There go Clark's rocks," they jeered. And they were 98.37% right. Only 1.63% of the gray copper ore can be reduced to valuable metal...
...policies of Calvin Coolidge are those of our party. . . . They are Mr. Hoover's, and they are mine. They are those of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt. . . . We can well be proud . . . united and impenetrable front . . . loyal and united . . . assured of a deserved and decisive majority vote of the people...
...numerous fruitless battles with the Soviet forces, between Dec. 18, 1918, and Aug. 19, 1919, the British lost twelve other ships: the light cruiser Cassandra, the mine carriers Victoria, Verulam, Gentian and Myrtle, and seven torpedo cutters...
...commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant of the U. S. battle fleet. From 1923 to 1927 he was Chief of Naval operations, the Navy's highest post, now held...
Reminiscing of the home in which she had visited M. & Mine. Raditch and the Seven Raditches. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis wrote: "He lived in a simple house in Zagreb and loved to entertain friends there, always offering them paprika sandwiches which made tears start while he talked-so rapidly and incoherently that the mind could hardly follow him. He earned a living by keeping a bookshop...