Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handicap Meet. There is an unusually large number of places open this spring, since 15 men who placed in the 1932 Yale meet graduated last June. The dashes, the mile and the two-mile, the relays, and the hurdles will be well taken care of by veteran trackmen. The hammer and the discus events are also well filled by veterans, but in most of the other field events there are a great many new men needed...
...Holy Door, while Cardinals do likewise at the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, St. Paul-without-the-Walls. In solemn, robed procession the Pope will move from the Vatican to the front portico of St. Peter's. Thrice he will knock, with a golden hammer, on the Holy Door. Within, Sanpietrini (St. Peter's workmen) will lower the door away. The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with holy water. Then all will enter, kissing the jambs as they pass. Thereafter the public may enter all through the year. Calendar, Audiences with Pius...
...women, says Welzl, are taken on hunting expeditions, and then "mostly hybrids, because the pure-blooded women of the northern tribes smell too much." In northern Canada Welzl found several small yellow stones, hit one with a hammer and was nearly deafened by the explosion. "It may sound incredible, but in the Far North most of the golddiggers and hunters know of these stones...
With the passing centuries the personality of Sculptor Donatello has suffered one curious change. Having finished a statue he is not satisfied with it until he has caused Alceo Dossena to take it out in the back yard, smash it with a hammer, skillfully round the edges of the break with fine abrasives, pickle it in acids and stains, then repair it with fetching crudity...
...Dartmouth track captain, Bill Hoffman, who for three years has been a powerful player in Dartmouth football lines, has given up hammer throwing this year and is concentrating entirely on the shot put. In his preliminary discussions of the meet, Hellman has looked forward to 16 points in the high jump and broad jump, and now he sees a chance with Hoffman, Durgin, Hagerman, and Hooper to send into the event two men who can shut the Harvard and Cornell weight men out of the main scoring places...