Word: axes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Advocate editor lost the key to the vault. The 100-yard dash was one by a splendid burst of profanity. The first heat of the 220-yard dash was very hot, but the leading man got cold feet, and the heat, dying, was declared a dead one. The axe-sharpening contest was one by A. Hard Grynde...
...England. This statue and the effigy from the tomb of the Emperor Maximilian near it, were both executed by the famous sixteenth century sculptor, Peter Vischer. Another interesting piece is the figure of a Frankish warrior of the fifth century, dressed in the national costume and bearing an axe and spear, the original of which is in the Museum of Mainz...
Lippincott's--"The Sound of the Axe," a poem by F. S. Palmer '87; "Gratsy," a story by G. H. Preston...
...collected by Prince Maximillian from the region of the City of Mexico and the State of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico, and is valuable for its great age and the rarity of the specimens which it includes. These represent gods, masks, and a number of single specimens, as a ceremonial axe, coiled serpent and carved vessel. These are carved from stone and from lava, and in some cases show evidences of an original covering of stucco...