Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quad Meet by placing in the weight throw. He was decidedly off form in the Quad Meet however and did not place. The following week, however, in the I.C.A.A.A.A. he captured second place by throwing the 35 lbs. 51 ft. 10 3/4 in. He is now throwing the hammer every afternoon behind the Stadium in preparation for the spring season...
Kolbe, like Lehmbruck, never uses the hammer and chisel. Like Lehmbruck, too, his art suggests a man conscious of a world governed by illogical forces. He seeks escape in dreams of gentle adolescence. Youths and maidens take dim shape as though seen from a distance, or through a haze...
...otherwise dispose of at least two-thirds of all his art. Estimated value of the lot: $15,000,000. If Mr. Hearst succeeds in his disposals his estate will have to pay inheritance taxes on only $5,000,000 worth of art objects. Just when the auctioneer's hammer will begin to fall was not stated, because after three months of work Mr. Hearst's agent, Manhattan Dealer Macdermid Parish-Watson, is nowhere near the end of cataloguing the collection. Hearst papers especially hinted at museum bequests by announcing that their boss meant to "share" his art with...
Scheduled for Carey Cage from 2.45 to 3.30 o'clock are the high jump, hammer throw, shot put and pole vault. Other events will be run off in Briggs starting at 4.40 o'clock with the 40 yard dash, and ending with relay event, in which each man will run one lap, at 5.55 o'clock. Kirkland, by virtue of a two and a half point victory over the Rabbits in the fall meet, will be defending champions...
Died. Charles Q. Eldredge, 92, world traveler, founder of the Eldredge Free Private Museum; after long illness; in Old Mystic, Conn. His museum contains 7,000 curiosities-among them Thomas A. Edison's first incandescent lamp, a hammer from Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky home, a cannon ball Mr. Eldredge firmly believed to be the first fired against Fort Sumter, an 8½-lb. petrified oyster, a piece of wood from the Confederate gunboat Merrimac. In 1933 he advertised for sale "a fully equipped museum, an honor to any town or city...