Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saint-Brieux, France, one Victor Rousoult was walking along the docks where he worked, when a dangling hook caught in the ring on his finger. The derrick from which the hook dangled hoisted ring, finger and Rousoult 100 feet into the air. Comrades saw, shouted. The derrick lowered Rousoult to the ground. When he was within a few feet of landing, his finger tore...
...ascended St. Peter's throne, liberal, popular. Two years later Italy became so liberal, so revolutionary that he had to flee from the Vatican disguised. The year 1850 saw him once more on the throne. French bayonets had effected his return. But his liberalism was gone...
...Rome, Pio Nono, no longer liberal, heard too. True that Manning and Newman entered his fold. True that Catholicism because of the very tolerance Voltaire had preached was spreading into Protestant countries. But Pius saw greedy eyes cast at the Papal lands. He, too, must cut the figure of a ruler, intimidate the Kings and Emperors. In 1864 he issued his famed Syllabus Errorum which declared all current naturalism and rationalism error, and put the papacy in opposition to the leading principles of modern civilization. It was not enough. Pius IX called an Ecumenical Council for 1870 to provide...
Five years ago Jo Davidson traveled in Russia for several weeks with Senator La Follette. On their return to Paris a bust and some sketches were made. The Senator departed. The sculptor never saw him again. When he set to work three years ago on the La Follette statue, the La Follette family sent him clothes, shoes and gloves that had been worn by the deceased Senator...
...Event was Commander Byrd's successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...