Word: ajax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public temper could be judged by a Gallup poll, taken before the coal-mine dispute. Even before John Lewis staged his Ajax-defying-the-lightning act, 73% of voters agreed that the Government should forbid strikes in defense industries. Report of a survey taken among union members themselves should have given Labor Leader Lewis pause. Workers voted 56% in favor of forbidding defense strikes; only 39% were opposed; 5% undecided...
Last week two of the testiest physiologists in the U.S. talked back to the Army's Captain Harry Armstrong, long considered No. 1 U.S. authority on aviation medicine. At the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary celebration, famed Professors Anton Julius ("Ajax") Carlson and Andrew Conway Ivy marched in with a parachute jumper. In a learned paper on "The Physiology of a Free Flight Through the Air" they contradicted some of the scientific observations which Dr. Armstrong made when he jumped from a plane at 2,200 feet, six years...
...second scene was my doctoral oral. For early an hour I wrought havoc among the Indo-European vowels and consonants, like the demented Ajax with the sheep, and though that all was over, Bust across the gloom came a ray of hope in the form of a question from Mr. Kittredge which suggested that the questioner had not yet put on the black...
...their tunnel. Soon the flow reached 20,000 gallons a minute-enough to cover an acre of ground to a depth of 100 ft. in a single day. The water level in Cripple Creek's long-flooded mines dropped fast. By last week the 2,600-foot-deep Ajax mine (formerly workable only with constant pumping) was dry all the way to the bottom. With the water draining from the mines, an estimated $13,000,000 in gold deposits was being uncovered and Cripple Creek was ready for another boom...
Summer and winter, old Ajax takes a few days off to spend at his log cabin in the Michigan woods. There he goes fishing makes hot cakes for his companions, in winter still occasionally chops a hole in the ice to take...