Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped top-hatted, white-gloved Executioner Goebler. If he had been working anywhere else in Germany he would have used a battle ax but in the State of Saxony, seat of the German Supreme Court, a French-type guillotine is the customary instrument of death. Putting his hand on the prisoner's arm, Executioner Goebler steered van der Lubbe to the guillotine, strapped him down, pressed a button releasing the great knife and stood back as it fell. Into a basket full of absorbent sawdust rolled the head of van der Lubbe...
...Dutchman van der Lubbe put to death: 1) by having his head chopped off with a battle ax? 2 ) by electrocution? 3) by garroting? 4) by guillotining? 5) by lethal gas? or 6) by hanging...
...record this year is almost exactly the reverse of that a year ago, when ax. improvement was shown by each classification of the College except the Senior Class...
...plowed to a standstill but not without loud backfirings. Wham! a cheese factory went up at Belgium, Wis. Wham! Wham! two more were dynamited at Krakow and Zachow. Repudiating their Holiday leader, Wisconsin farmers, bundled against the biting winter winds, held up city-bound milk and food trucks, braved ax handles, tear gas and blackjacks, stormed the Sunshine dairy at Waterford three times in a day, destroying 34,000 Ib. of milk by dumping it on the ground, pouring gasoline in the vats. Thirty-five picketers at Wausau were arrested, thrown in jail, after they demolished a truck...
...throwing an ax Captain Butler stands four to eight yards from the butt end of the log target. The beginner should first try to put the ax edge into the log. Later he can try driving spikes into the wood with the ax head. Adroit Captain Butler can cleave a piece of garden hose three out of five times at eight yards...