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Word: hammer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsmen there to help themselves. They tried to, but could not remove the tightly bound wire around the case, whereupon Homer Bone made a sardonic and highly characteristic remark. Said he: "Do you mean that with all the knockers around here you fellows haven't got a hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...hammer home this thought, two impassioned English oldsters-Powys is 66, Ford 65-give their best to prove to common readers that the classics are good reading. Both are concerned with the literary rather than the biographical aspect of their subjects, both agree on their main admirations: Homer, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Greek tragedies, Dostoyevsky; neither has much use for the scientific and political spirit of contemporary letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Classic Propaganda | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...most suspenseful and certainly one of the funniest cinema sequences ever filmed at famed Santa Anita track. Typical shot: Ritz No. 3 turning off the lights during a wrestling match so that Ritz No. 2 can hit Ritz No. 1's opponent with the timekeeper's hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...appear no more fatigued than if he had spent an evening at a Harlem shindig. He has fought on an average of twice a month in the past year, has knocked out 35 of his last 38 opponents. Most fight fans agreed that the little Iron Man would hammer Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers into submission in jig time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triple Champion | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...make her novelty also a likely bestseller. Divested of wisecracks, Author Halsey's English impressions are surprisingly charitable - kinder than most English impressions of the U. S., kinder than Peggy Bacon's illustrations, and much kinder than the satire with which young English writers them selves hammer away at their gentry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stepmother Country | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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