Word: axed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DOUBLE AXE (149 pp.)-Robinson Jeffers-Random House...
...Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view of their conduct makes a hit with Cal students, even more than Sproul's occasional all-out efforts...
...world" crusader with rag-paper pamphlets and the cautiously respectable student council federation with annual parliamentary junkets. Regional delegates, meeting here over the weekend in a warmup before this September's week-long Constitutional Convention at the University of Wisconsin, displayed unanimous determination to steer clear of both political axe-grinding and do-nothing organization for its own sake. What they are out to build is an utterly representative national body in which every American student will feel himself a citizen-member. Their aim is to coordinate the efforts of students in the solution of common problems; to provide...
...reported the average weekly board cost as $3.95 at a time when the menu offered such choices as "Roast Ribs of Beef," and "Braised Pork Tenderloin, Robert Sauce." "Creme d'Menthe Punch" and "Jelly Roll Pudding, Wine Sance" were two items on the same menu that prompted Carrie Nation, axe-wielding prohibitionist, to make her notorious invasion of the Memorial Hall dining room. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery where visitors came to "watch the animals eat"--and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys...
...living. Labor leaders are under greater pressure than ever from their followers to bring home increased wages. Only the threat of another round of strikes which might be disastrous to the future well-being of their organizations; with Congress showing increased signs of readiness to swing a big axe at the unions, would prevent these leaders from asking for an increased share of industrial profits. Management, faced with another boost in the cost of labor, would again be tempted to raise prices correspondingly, and another inflationary jump would be under...