Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a doubt concerning the authenticity of this picture for this reason: if you will closely scrutinize the photograph in question, especially the insignia on the gentleman's cap, you will discover what appears to be the hammer and sickle of the Communists...
TIME'S was an authentic picture of General Yague. What the Reverend Thomas Higgins mistakes for Communism's hammer & sickle is the insignia worn for at least 30 years by Spanish infantry generals and continued as the insignia of Rebel generals. It is a four-pointed star with baton and sword crossed behind it. TIME is amazed at Father Higgins' opinion of journalistic ethics. TIME never knowingly publishes an unauthentic photograph, never has, never will...
...newspapers to sell his car. An unsmiling 63-year-old woman named Mary Eleanor Smith and her crippled son, Earl, answered the advertisement. James Bassett drove out to their house. Mrs. Smith engaged him in conversation while Earl hobbled up behind and hit him over the head with a hammer. Then they cut him into pieces, burned part, buried part, and scattered his teeth up and down the road...
First places were evenly divided, seven going to each team. It was a day of sweeps for both. Harvard swept the hammer throw, with Steve Brennan, Bill Shallow, and Bob Sears throwing one, two, three. Brennan's throw was 159 ft. 11 in. The shot was also swept by Harvard. George Downing won with 47 ft., 6 1-2 in. Howard Mendel and Bert Litman followed him. John Erhard, Pen Tuttle, and Dave Rivinus won the two-mile run for the Crimson. Erhard and Tuttle led the field by approximately 100 yards. Erhard's time...
...fairly often succeeds in being comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, has described them as major examples of "harmonious destruction." Good examples are The Last Gaucho (see cut) and How About It? (see cut) which...