Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, ever since October, WPAsters have been working on a sewer project 100 yards from Dr. Clendening's home. Building a sewer, as everyone knows, usually involves a lot of pneumatic drilling. One day last week the WPA foreman beheld Dr. Clendening approaching. He was brandishing an ax and shouting: "I'm going to stop this thing once...
Massachusetts. Leverett Saltonstall, who came in after eight Democratic years, inherited an Augean mess from the Hurley-Curley administrations. He declared that no man who was doing a decent, necessary job need fear the ax, then proceeded to go after other jobholders (see p. 40). Of more concern to Massachusetts was his announced conviction that despite all economies the State tax on cities & towns would have to be upped from a record $17,000,000 last year to perhaps...
...journeyed inland through a chain of lakes and rivers, finally started overland on an Indian portage which leads to Lake Superior. In Ontario, some two miles from a place now named Beardmore, the Norseman died or was killed by Indians. He was buried there with his sword, shield and ax...
...Ontario Museum of Archeology, a seasoned, reticent archeologist who has seen service in Sinai, Greece, Crete, Turkey. For background Dr. Currelly had the old Norse sagas of Eric, Leif, Bjarni, Karlsefni, the trader. For material evidence, he had the age-crusted sword, broken in two, and fragments of the ax and shield which were buried with "The Beardmore Viking" in Ontario...
...them. Eventually word of the find reached the ears of Curator Currelly, who asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late 10th or early 11th Centuries. He sent photographs of the sword, ax and shield fragments to Norse experts in Europe, who unanimously confirmed his opinion. Then he paid Dodd...