Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life history as revealed in his current advertisement: "Have you Guts Enough to Gamble 30-for Proof in 7 Days that You Can Have a Body Like Mine? ... I was a sickly, skinny run-down weakling, weighing only 97 pounds. I finally got fed up with being bullied around and looked down on. THEN-I discovered my amazing secret of Dynamic Tension! This natural principle quickly developed me from a no-account runt to a perfect specimen who holds the international title 'The World's Most Perfectly Developed...
...Washington, D. C. drive on speeders police arrested big, burly President John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers on a charge of driving 42 m. p. h. in a 30-mile zone. Laborman Lewis posted a $10 bond, left town. On Pennsylvania Avenue a patrolman stopped Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, famed Washington hostess and member of the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Association, charged her with driving 32 m. p. h.. carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side...
...Damien believed his own religion with the simplicity of ... a child, as I would I could suppose that you do. . . . But the point of interest in Damien, which has caused him to be so much talked about and made him at last the subject of your pen and mine, was that, in him, his bigotry, his intense and narrow faith, wrought potently for good, and strengthened him to be one of the world's heroes and exemplars...
Gaunt Philippa Allen, social worker, testified: "Dry drilling was the cause of the dense silica dust. It would stop when State mine inspectors entered the tunnel. Men acted as lookouts to warn of their presence. As a result inspectors testified that the tunnel was practically dust free. Mrs. Charlie Jones of Gamoca was the .first to find what was killing the men." Mrs. Jones, according to Miss Allen, begged money along the road to pay for x-rays of the lungs of her son Shirley who asked on his deathbed to "be opened up to see if I didn...
Charlie Jones, 49, big and ruddy tunnel worker, wheezed: "The only work I could do after I left the tunnel-that was only a bit-was pickin' bony at the tipple at the coal mine. And that's the easiest work they is. boys' work. I hed to give that up. Now I cain't hardly lug a bucket of water, and that not fur. I cain't hardly git up on a chair and haul window blinds. I give myself 'bout a year. I know I'm goin...