Word: thor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last cent he owned in the world before his takeoff, Mechanic Bochkon telephoned collect from Barre to a New York newsman for a weather report and to ask "what them other squareheads are doing?" The "other squareheads" had taken off from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman...
...heard the morning stars when they sang together. I saw Thor gather in the rainbows to wrap about the dying storm; I walked with Caesar through the three parts of Gaul and I listened to Virgil when he sang his Aeneid when I was told I was to introduce this...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra was censured by many last week for ousting nine of his players. FourClarinetist Paul Alemann, Horn-player Otto Henneberg, Violinist Marius Thor, Oboeist Edward Raho?had been with the orchestra from 18 to 26 years. Probable reason for their dismissal: too old, stale...
...fishermen present a united front to European buyers of cod and herring. Experience has shown that by this method they can demand and get higher prices than ever before. Jealously guarded are Iceland's lucrative fisheries. Day and night they are patrolled by the country's two icebreakers, the Thor and the Odin. Trespassing trawlers are hauled before a civil court, and up to the present time fines imposed on such fish poachers have sufficed to pay the expenses of the patrol...