Word: chisel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...There is no point at which the development of the machine is a menace. An iron chisel is better than a flint one, and a steel chisel is better than an iron one. Could there be a point at which the cutting quality of the chisel could be made so fine that it would be a menace? Obviously...
...Atlanta Constitution and Political Boss Hollins Randolph, Sculptor Borglum was dismissed for incompetence, lack of progress. Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and embellish the whole with a 500-word history of the U. S. by Calvin Coolidge...
...years getting the material for this book. Born in Waitsburg, Wash., she was educated at the University of California, was one of the founder-editors of The Measure: A Journal of Verse (1920-26). Biographer Taggard teaches English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Other books: Words for the Chisel, Travelling Standing Still...
...stone-wrought verse of "The Raven": "Dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before." The "s" in "mortals" offended Mr. Fontaine. He hated its sibilance, knew that there was no "s" in Poe's original version. So Mr. Fontaine determinedly edited out the "s" with a chisel. A policeman arrested him for defacing the public monument...
...Newfoundland which was unquestionably crossed by very recent ice. Here (at Burgeo) the granitic hills are absolutely stripped of all soil and rotten rock-mantle, and the conspicuously striated ledges contain gourges which look as if they might have been hacked only yesterday by a sharp mattock or heavy chisel. In this region, too, great boulders as large as small houses are scattered irregularly over the hills, the boulders having fresh and undecayed surfaces...