Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when his subject was another man, but he remained less great than those he discovered. Of these the greatest was Shaw, whose biography he finished before his death.* Said Philosopher Shaw: "Frank had to die some day. ... I think it is time that all men of his age and mine were dying...
...Smith, 85; of injuries sustained in a fall; in Oakland, Calif. Prospecting for gold in Death Valley, he found great borax deposits. Before he was 30 he controlled the U.S. market, was many times a millionaire. At 50, his fortune gone, he got a fresh start from a silver mine he had bought and forgotten. At 75 he bought a new borax deposit, made a new fortune. When he died most of that was gone...
...most Colorado coal operators President Roche of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. is a dangerous industrial radical who brought the United Mine Workers of America back into Colorado. Her father founded Rocky Mountain Fuel. His big customers were sugar beet factories. Miss Josephine was sent to Vassar (1908), did postgraduate work at Columbia, developed a consuming interest in progressive social causes. She did volunteer settlement work, researched the cost of living, helped locally with Belgian relief, returned to Denver to serve as chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court under Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (since ousted). For her liberal views...
...this Legion business when I get out where I won't get in wrong when I say things. I am going [to Pennsylvania] tomorrow and tell those soldiers if they don't go out and lick that gang in Philadelphia I'll throw this uniform of mine...
...Author. Robert Raynolds had reached the age of 28 without getting one of his stories published. Born in Santa Fe, N. Mex., in the room in the Governor's Palace where the late Author Lew Wallace is supposed to have worked on Ben Hur, he toiled in coal mines, a cement mill, a silver mine, on a trade magazine; but kept his literary ambitions. Though a graduate of Lafayette he spent two earlier years at Princeton, where the Nassau Literary Magazine encouraged him by accepting a sonnet, a sketch. A year ago he left his editorial job, took...