Word: puukko
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Niilo Kalervo Kallio started playing with puukoilla (Finnish for knives) while he was still in short pants. "What old men can whittle I could whittle before I was ten," he says. "I loved my puukko so much that when I went to bed I'd put it under my pillow and pray I would some day have the sharpest knife in the world...
...Puukko Knife...
...strength of a letter rgarding the "Keen Edged Puukko Knife" which TIME published last September (TIME, Sept. 29), a very fine gift has come...
There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...
...them, not even a house servant, as being stupid! Finns resent such comment. You erred and used poor judgment when you published it. Lest you err again, permit me to advise that you use care never to call them Finlanders. Their trusty weapons of former days-the keen-edged Puukko knife-often slashed the person guilty of far less than what you "pulled" last week. WILLIAM...