Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports, javelin, discus, hammer throwing, shot putting and archery cause a lopsided muscular development. The recent War rationalized shot putting and discus throwing for grenade throwing. Cudgeling and knifing, which have not survived as warlike sports, were also useful. But not archery or javelin throwing...
Ever since scrappers set upon Britain's R-100 with hammer & tongs, Germany and the U. S. have alone borne the burden of dirigible development. But last week Russia hove upon the dirigible scene. Comrade Pourmal, recently appointed Soviet Chief of Dirigible Construction, issued a bold pronunciamento...
...Hammer throw--won by J. M. Finlayson '32 (scratch); second, O. A. Lempke '35 (25 feet); third, L. M. Backus '35 (23 feet). Distance...
...field events, with the men who have showed up best in practice are: javelin, R. F. Estes '34, A. E. Wahlgren '34; hammer throw, M. J. Finlayson '32; pole vault, Francis Schumann '35, J. D. Woodberry '35; high jump, G. W. Kuchn '32, D. A. Herman '32; shot put, Kuehn, J. J. Healey '34, J. H. Dean '34; broad jump, J. M. Morse, W. C. McCarty '35; discuss, Dean, Healey, and R. P. Buch...
...menace to liberal thought is to dignify an extravagant and abusive propaganda beyond its merits. To rush to the defence of Professor Einstein or fight for the good name of "Comrades" Dewey, or Frankfurter with the temperate sword of common sense is to reach for a sledge hammer when one is bitten by a flea. Better by far to accept the "little volume" as a simple gift of the gods sent to relieve the tedium of depression and that irritating Eastern imbroglio. This is after all "that best of all possible worlds" in which everything is designed to a certain...