Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afternoon Events: 1:30--high jump; pole vault; javelin throw. 2:30--120 yard high hurdles; shot put. 2:40--880-yard run. 2:45--discus. 2:50--100-yard dash. 2:55--two-mile run. 3:00--hammer throw. 3:10--relay heats. 3:15--broad jump. 3:30--220 low hurdles. 3:40--one mile run. 3:50--440 relay finals. 4:00--one mile relay finals...
...over a perennially victorious track team, the Freshmen beat Andover 79 to 46 at Andover Saturday. Wins were attained by Jim Lightbody in the 220 and 440, Ed Childs in the half, Pen Tuttle in the mile, Downing in the shot, Ed Ford in the javelin, Shallow in the hammer, Hollands in the broad jump, a triple tie among Aertson, Ford, and MacIsaac in the pole vault...
Casually announcing that the Government will spend a total of $4,315,500,000 in 1937, $324,755,000 more than last year-most of it on warplanes,ships and guns-Mr. Chamberlain let fly two hammer blows: 1) Britons' basic tax on net incomes will be raised to live shillings in the pound (25%). A Briton with a wife and child who earns $5,000 a year would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington...
...ultimate eighth of an inch of John Doe's hammer throw or broad jump is to be entered in the records at all," says Dr. Kirkpatrick. "it would seem sensible to try to get it down correctly. ... In all cases where adequate data are at hand the method of redress is by simple arithmetic, in conjunction with two or three venerable formulas. . . . The labors of Newton and Copernicus have been complete for some time now, but news sometimes seems to travel slowly in precisely those quarters where it is significant...
...surface rotates faster near the Equator, generating a stronger centrifugal force which goes farther toward counteracting the gravitational pull. A good javelin throw will go a foot farther in Hongkong than in Finland. The same broad jump will be ⅜ in. longer in Texas than in Massachusetts. "Hammer throwers with Olympic aspirations," writes Dr. Kirkpatrick, "may take satisfaction in the award of the 1940 games to Tokyo rather than to Helsingfors, for a well-thrown hammer will go some 4½ in. farther in Japan than in Finland." Differences of altitude bring about a further complication, for the force...