Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Three unidentified undergraduates, in a glorious attempt to chop down the Eli goal-posts under cover of night after the game Saturday, ended up in the New Haven brig under charges of trespassing and attempted vandalism...
...Chop down trees of poor types, replacing with best types...
...reply to the Messerschmitt fighter-bomber was an improved model Hurricane mounting twelve machine guns instead of eight in its wing-edge. As described, one burst from its dozen guns is enough to chop up an enemy plane...
...German Emperor and King of Prussia. Fuhrer Adolf, ac cording to some reports, would like to see Wilhelm II return to the Reich, live out his days as a Hohenzollern Junker; but the ex-Kaiser, while accepting the protection of Hitler's own guards, kept on chop ping wood at Doom...
...from a tiny jeweler's bandsaw blade (thickness: .005 in.) with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate of about 500 a year. Specially made, musical saws are flat-ground, straight-backed, smooth so the notes will run through the whole blade...