Word: mining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talk to me about the advantages of an education !" indignantly exclaimed a certain manufacturer lately. "Here I spent $4,000 on that boy of mine. He came out of college with flying colors. I put him in charge of the factory while I went off for a little vacation, and what do you suppose he did? Shipped to South America 50,000 of my new patent snow shovels...
...universities, one to one, another to another. The student passes from the school to the university without an examination. He is retained at the school six years. Add two years to our preparatory schools, and two to our college, and we have the English system." The italics are mine. Farther on is this passage. "Then, in aristocratic England a university man has great political and social advantages, which, in a democratic country like America, count for little...
...mine, the whole world through. [Brunonian...
...Diamond mine men engaged in the recovery of the bodies of the miners killed in the recent disaster were imprisoned by a new caving-in, and were rescued with difficulty...
Concerning the disposal of Lord Ashburnham's famous collection of manuscripts now offered for sale, the Oxford Magazine thinks that "the subject is one on which Oxford ought to have an opinion and to express it. Surely it would be misplaced parsimony to allow such a mine of wealth for the scholar and antiquary to pass into the hands of Germany or America...