(n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
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Railroad
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(n.) Alt. of Railway
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(1) A review of all railroad-related deaths and significant injuries that occurred in a medium-sized metropolitan area from January 1, 1979, to June 30, 1986, was conducted.
(2) And in the 1840s, American railroads began designating a “ladies’ car” for the exclusive use of women and their male escorts.
(3) Officers took up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks and scanned the terrain through rifle scopes and binoculars.
(4) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
(5) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
(6) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(7) He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges.
(8) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
(9) A total of 25 male railroad and underground railroad car painters were studied.
(10) horns of cars, sirens of emergency vehicles and alarm signals of railroad crossings, and then displays them as vibration to the driver.
(11) With the epizootic situation remaining tense and the danger of TBE virus infection still present, TBE morbidity and mortality rates decreased in the years of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railroad, which was due to greater attention given to measures for the prophylaxis of TBE during this period.
(12) Exposure, smoking, and respiratory histories, chest radiographs, flow-volume loops, and single breath DLCOs were obtained on 383 railroad workers.
(13) On the basis of 1518 values of concentration of glycosylated Hb in blood of workers responsible for safety in railroad transportation authors tried to calculate the range of normal values of this parameter.
(14) Metro North and the Long Island Railroad remain closed today.
(15) The majority are railroaded into the so-called sport from massively disadvantaged backgrounds.
(16) An adaptation of the Palmes personal passive sampler was used to measure the NO2 exposures of 477 U.S. railroad workers at four railroads.
(17) The study indicates a causal relation between urinary stone formation in the investigated railroad shopmen and their exposure to oxalic acid at work.
(18) The 44-year-old railroad worker grew up on the other side of the canal where Paris Avenue meets Treasure Street, a few blocks from Elysian Fields Avenue.
(19) Data from white adult men working for U.S. railroad companies in 1957 to 1960, who were free of pre-existing cardiovascular disease (N = 2,356), were used to study these relationships cross-sectionally.
(20) Our findings are similar; they showed slight positive signs of slowed nerve conduction velocities among the car painters and no increase in EEG abnormalities in comparison to the reference group of railroad engineers.