Word: thor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probe was never completed. Plum celebrated his escape with a statue. Grotesque, it rises on Plum Island, symbolically depicting the God Thor victoriously wrestling with demons of the underworld...
...Mischievous Norse Fire-God of a shape transformable at will. Thor, God of War and Thunder, chained him up when he grew too obstreperous. But Loki will come again to lead forth the hosts of Hel at Twilight of the Gods...
German citizens who expected to see the mace of Government fall upon the truculent employers like the vengeful hammer of Thor were surprised and perturbed to see that nothing of the sort happened last week. Many a legal expert opined that the State is not empowered to enforce such awards, and gratuitously added that the Ministry of Labor has put through many such in the past chiefly by might of bluff...
...service within the walls of other universities than Colgate. Who has been so lucky as never to have taken an examination in New Lecture Hall at a time when a riveting-machine, the noise-maker de-luxe and par excellence of all creatures under the sun, was pounding like Thor's hammer in the street outside, and on the temples of the student within? Who has calculated the exact amount of nervous energy consumed by hearing cries of Reinhartlate at night, or the tolling to the bell early in the morning...
...played & lost a single game to the British. Two years later international polo really started when a team headed by Foxhall Keene of Philadelphia was formally exported, won the first game and lost the next two. Soon Harry Payne Whitney took a hand. This famed sportsman opened a thor- ough preparatory drive to beat Britain, selected his team, schooled his ponies over a period of years. In 1909 the "Big Four," Whitney, Monty and Larry Waterbury, and Milburn, sailed for England and drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four of them have...