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Word: hammer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home (not far from where famed Lawyer John William Davis once lived) and beside a windowless, cell-like garage dug up the bodies of Mrs. Eicher and her children. The two girls, 9 and 14, had been strangled; the head of the boy, 12, was beaten in with a hammer. The police arrested Powers, pounded a confession out of him. Convicts still digging in the foul trench found the body of Dorothy Pressler Lemke, a grass widow who had withdrawn $1,533 from a bank and left Northboro, Mass, with Powers a month earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: We Make Thousands Happy | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Best talent in the show is droll Will Mahoney. With a hammer on each shoe and a sad expression on his face he makes music by dancing on a giant xylophone? the ''Mahoneyphone.'' Chicago theatre-goers saw this act tried out last year in Earl Carroll's Sketchbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Flesh Cathedral | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...important with large planes than with small, but the need for commanders with stamina and executive experience in a degree comparable to the present masters of ocean liners is of paramount importance. . . ." Commander of the DO-X on her arrival last week was 43-year-old Captain Fritz W. Hammer. He had been flying three years at the outbreak of the War. in which he fought in German navy planes, was several times wounded. In 1919 he helped found Scadta Airways, in Colombia and Venezuela, was its technical adviser till 1925. Capt. Hammer's engineering ability, combined with his familiarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Dough-Icks | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...both sides of a central aisle. Experts made allowances for the extraordinary series of delays and postponements which had made her long flight almost comically slothful. Engineering and operative problems, in creasing in proportion to the size of a plane, could only be solved in actual flight. Captain Hammer declared that the DO-X's crossing, which took more than six months longer than that of the Mayflower, had been far more useful than a quick and direct passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Dough-Icks | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...President's words created a temporary political pother. There was talk of legislation to outlaw short selling, altogether. Short-sellers were anonymously but importantly condemned as "hyenas" and "crocodiles." Somebody told the President that shorts were prepared to hammer wheat prices down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover on Shorts | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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