Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White head Irving Folworthsny easily captured the hammer throw. His distance of 172 ft. 4 1/2 in, outclassed the other contestants. John McLaughry of Brown was second with 157 ft 9 in, and Bill Shallow of Harvard gained third with 151 ft. 8 in. In the Javelin Bert Litman gained first for Harvard. His throw get a new record with 180 ft. 7 1/2 in. His teammates completed the scoring in this event, Fulton Cahners taking second, and Ed Ford third...
...article on War in Spain TIME, April 18, is a prize sentence ending "the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory." While they are in there they ought to hammer a couple of nice little wooden pegs in the Eustachian tubes. That would fix them...
...French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy shirt front, resembles more than he does Windsor...
...aviator before and during the World War, Fritz Wilhelm Hammer in the years that followed made for himself a place in German civil aviation equivalent to that occupied by the late Captain Ed Musick in the U. S. In South America he established and flew lines in Brazil and Ecuador. When Dornier needed a pilot for its mammoth DO-X, Fritz Hammer was recalled to take the great twelve-motor airplane on its long transatlantic trips. Last week from the rocky Cordilleras came the details of 49-year-old Captain Hammer's last flight...
With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...