Word: chisel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...creator of the sobriquet 'Tiger' with a capital 'T' as applied to M. Clémenceau." said Editor Emile Buré of the Paris daily L'Avenor last week. "I am proud of the achievement! It will perhaps furnish the only chisel ever likely to cut my name in the granite of History...
...Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire by rubbing sticks together. They showed him how they cremated their little dead. And they laughed as they entertained him. He offered them modern steel tools. They shyly asked for bright shells and beads. He learned a few of their phrases-short words...