Word: chopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headsman was a professional man, who used his great beheading sword in one hand, holding the handle as one would a dagger with the back of the blade extending back parallel to his forearm. Beheading was done by a single slice with the long blade instead of a chop. For a consideration from the condemned or his friends the headsman would leave a small piece of skin remaining so that the ignominy of complete decapitation was avoided. Cases were reported here headsmen had been persuaded to save the life of the condemned by making a large, gory slanting slice, which...
...Katherine Parr, widow, woman of great good sense and good will. Henry was 50, his face greasy and yellow in candlelight, his hands "broken out with rings." He was going to chop off her head, but she quietly talked...
...three days ago, but Swaim's crew were prepared for a close contest, and made a much better showing. The crews rowed down the course at a 32 stroke-per-minute clip, little hindered by a light head wind, which had less effect than did the cross chop from several launches which had passed over the course. Crew X had a slight lead as the two eights passed under Harvard bridge, but Watts forced his shell ahead to a position almost a length in front of crew X. Swaim retaliated, but was not able to shorten to less than three...
...because 95% of the cinchona bark from which quinine is refined comes from Java and other oriental Dutch cinchona tree plantations. The British have small plantations in India. The northern Andes, particularly in Ecuador, where the trees are native, now produce little of the bark. The Indians, who must chop their paths through jungles to reach the isolated cinchona groves, find the labor too hard for profit. Consequently the Dutch have been able to regulate the world cinchona bark and quinine trade very much as they pleased...
...Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw. Paris, he knew, was no place for a Yale French scholar to live in, so he went to London and stayed there among the chop suey dishes and Chinese laundries of the Limehouse district. When he came back to the U. S., he was a stowaway in the stoker's forecastle of a tramp ship...