Word: tippett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend their days above ground. Both books are packed with information on the technical details of coal mining, discussions of blackdamp, underground floods, explosions, entombments, but the picture that results is scarcely calculated to fill the patriots of either country with pride. The bitterness of Tom Tippett's account of Illinois disasters, in Horse Shoe Bottoms, is matched by the bitterness of Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin's account of similar disasters beneath the seas of England...