Word: axes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veritable fury of destruction seized hold of me. Break it up! I wanted to shout. Smash away! Bust it to bits! Everything had gone red in front of my eyes. If I had had an axe or a lump of iron in my hand I should have hit out with it and smashed up myself and everyone else with the wild recklessness of a maniac...
...Miami, deaf Mrs. Irene Hahn, 65, fled terror-stricken from her bedroom when a man started battering at the door with an axe, locked herself in an adjoining room. Presently that door, too, was battered. She retreated to another room. There the axe-wielder finally cornered deaf Mrs. Hahn, explained the house was on fire, he, a fireman...
Unlike Mr. Suma, Professor Zimmerman of the Sociology Department has no axe to grind in his article "A German Village of Today." Professor Zimmerman has been making a study of the ancient German hamlet of Klein Leugden, and he attempts here to reach a fair conclusion as to the effects of Nazi legislation on the lives of this small group of German villagers...
...felt that our participation in the Cuban question was due entirely to Messrs. Hearst, Pulitzer, and Remington. Mr. Mason is more concerned with the legendary Americana that fills the period, and with the war as a colorful, populous picture, aside from its deep political significance. He grinds not an axe, but a camera...
...seems that when the genus home finally became a biped instead of a monkey, the tendency in battle was not to grab a meat axe, but to wrestle. Gradually the set-to between cavemen grew into an activity practiced for amusement's sake. The sport reached a high point in development with the Graeco-Roman method in the west and the Oriental style in the east...