Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complimentary to say that a book is good if it can be read by anyone and do no harm, no better tribute could be paid this work. Certainly not all readers would acquire equal benefit from it; certainly the mellow vein of understanding, the whimsical, delicate irony will be lost on many. But there are no startling extremes to lead a reader away from the genuine excellence of the work as a whole...
Included in the batch of letters are all the familiar specimens of newspaper correspondence; there are the Legion boys themselves who start off with the customary cracks at the "deah old Harvard Ladies," and then continue in an equally intelligent vein; and there are the humorless, but conscientious Harvard alumni who write in and deplore the Crimson's "hasty and unwise policy;" still others hold "older men," viz., the board of directors, responsible; and a few strike out boldly in their wholehearted approval...
Scratching away the loose dirt covering the rocky deposits, miners found a vein especially rich in uranium oxide. Although the extent of the discovery is not definitely known yet, investigation so far has shown it to be a strip from five to ten feet wide and over one mile in length. Uraninite is scattered throughout the deposits...
Droning on in totally irrelevant vein the trial seemed headed for acquittal of fat Fernando. But newsprophecies to this effect were unfair to Belgian justice. Fat Fernando was abruptly found guilty, sentenced to five years in jail...
...Sioux City, Iowa, H. J. Dagle broke his back several months ago, lived in a plaster cast. Last week he was stung on a vein by a bee, died in 20 minutes...