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...Brooklyn Naval Hospital where Captain Butler is commanding officer, he keeps a stack of logs and a collection of axes. Some axes are single-bitted, some double-bitted. Others are firemen's axes. The axes which Captain Butler uses are short-helved 3½ or 4 pounders. Longest convenient length for ax and handle is 16 in. A greater length interferes with the tumble of the ax on its way from hand to target...
Whether, in return, the gangsters got any real money was uncertain. Federal agents declared it was all bogus, but reports were current that the package contained at least $500 in bills wrapped around a stack of note paper...
...every other State, the New Jersey Legislature fussed and fiddled over a stack of legislative trivialities with which its critics contend it should not concern itself. Passed were bills to license barbers, to accept Grover Cleveland's birthplace at Caldwell as public property, to register lodge emblems. Though it ducked a sales tax and beat a horse racing & betting bill. its more important enactments followed a national trend. As in three other States, it required automobiles to be equipped with safety glass in the near future. As in 33 other States, it took control of beer sales...
...open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling Broadway controversies. Had he been able, for example, as a senior, to supplement his thesis and tutorial stack-work with an intelligent course in modern literary trends and criticism he would probably never have to seek shelter in the almost religious regimen of the Book of the Month Club...
...down at the black oval table in the centre of the President's room just off the Senate lobby. He was still President of the U..S. with work to do. An enormous wall mirror reflected the drawn tired lines in his face as he hunched over a stack of bills laid before him. William McKinley (in bronze) glowered out of a corner. Down through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted on the ceiling was fixed upon the grey Hoover head as it bent to its task. Around the mosaic floor stood...