Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's house-planners, is burgeoning at Cambridge. Addressing 300 freshmen on The Democracy of the House Plan, he said: "I went to Dunster House tonight . . . went to a table where there were two fellows and dined with them ... I didn't ask them their names nor they mine. We discussed Homer, Virgil and Milton. Afterwards I felt I had been discussing subjects with which I am none too familiar. I get that way by keeping constantly in touch with administrative matters...
Soon the Rinehart finances were in good shape; the Rineharts could afford to go abroad. Mrs. Rinehart could even afford such extravagances as buying "a sixteenth of a gold mine which never developed." When the War came she was sent abroad by the Literary Digest. She met notables: Foch, Queen Mary of England, King Albert of the Belgians. She went into the trenches, into No-Man's Land. She came back and wrote it up guardedly. When the U. S. went in, Dr. Rinehart and the two eldest boys enlisted; Mrs. Rinehart finally managed to be sent over...
...italics are mine, and the quotation is word for word from the paper referred to. This would seem to be about the highest tribute thus far paid to the veterans of the World War. . . . I wonder if it will pass unchallenged...
...supplied the rambunctious General with the anecdote of Il Duce's alleged hit & run motor drive, for relating which the General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat." Mr. Vanderbilt then gave newsmen the "real truth": "I was riding with Mussolini, who drove. A small child ran in front of the machine . . . and was hit. I looked back to see if the child was hurt. Mussolini...
Near Rumney Depot is the Ruggles sheet-mica mine, oldest in the U. S. Found in combination with mica are beryl, feldspar...