Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal with the Soviets, Hungary and Rumania were trying desperately to be friends. Lately it has seemed clear enough that if Hungary did get Transylvania back from Rumania, Germany might swallow both on its inevitable way to get at oil-drilling, grain-bearing Rumania. Last week, with Hitler going hammer & tongs after Poland, Hungary's historic ally, Hungary seemed a likely next under the hammer. With this in prospect, worrying over long-lost Transylvania seemed pointless indeed...
...second panel, entitled The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences, is a scene of Territorial industry. In front of a sod house a woman and child pare potatoes; near by, on a wagon, the farmer with a sledge hammer drives a fence post in the ground. The foreground is shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted...
...training parrots not to talk to one whose idea of diversion was letting people break paving stones on his head. There have been casualties of sorts. The paving stone idea, for example, looked a little risky to NBC. Chips from the granite, flying out from under the sledge hammer, might have cut someone in the studio audience. So a dinner plate was substituted for the paver. But when the prop man swung his little hammer, breaking the plate, he also dug quite a gash in the hobbyist's pate. Once a beekeeper lost control of some of his pets...
...supercilious critics there are thousands of music lovers and many big-league critics who rate Martinelli as the greatest of all tenors [TIME, July 3]. Caruso was never the "undisputed" supreme among the "chandelier-jigglers" either. Caruso's voice, though thrilling, certainly, was something like a trip hammer, and eventually busted his neck...
Every fall some 350 youngsters hammer at Holy Name's gates, about 35 get in* (present student body numbers 93). The curriculum includes technical high school and scientific college courses of four years each. High school students study conventional courses with emphasis on mechanics, little or no aeronautics...