Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cahners has been a leading hammer thrower on the track team for the past three years, and will speak on athletics at Harvard, while Miller won the Lee Wade Speaking prize. He is to speak on the general topic of "Harvard Indifference...
...into better work and opened their minds. He has blistered the incompetent with his scorn and brought shame to the cheeks of the ill-mannered or the inconsiderate. To those with inquiring minds he has pointed out roads which they have followed with happiness in succeeding years. With the hammer of scholarship and the tongs of wit he has beaten the plays of Shakespeare into the reluctant minds of adolescence...
Newshawks discovered that for months, when he got tired of looking at fruit flies, the geneticist had retired to a garage, put on a greasy jumper and worked on his car far into the night, hammering, welding, machining parts on a lathe. Now & then, the foreman reported, Dr. Bridges hit his thumb with a hammer. Once he had to visit a hospital to have removed some tiny bits of steel which flew into his eyes. It was Calvin Bridges' splendid eyesight which first attracted Dr. Morgan's interest in him when Bridges was a shaggy, enthusiastic student...
Rhode Island has an exceptionally brilliant bunch of weight men, headed by Irving Folwarthshny and William Rowe, each of whom is potentially capable of ten foot more in the hammer throw than Norm Cahners, top Harvard man who hurled it 162 feet in the recent handicap meet. Folwarthshny also has a world record to his credit in the 35-pound weight throw, won in winter competition...
Died. Magician Howard Thurston, 67; in Miami Beach, Fla. His most adroit tricks often embarrassed people of : In Washington he once removed a genuine bottle of whiskey from Andrew J. Volstead's pocket. At the White House, he smashed President Coolidge's watch with a hammer, produced a loaf of bread, cut it apart, pulled out the watch, ticking and whole...