Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the metropolitan newspapers went for the city administration hammer- &tongs. Mindful of the crusading tradition inherited with its recent purchase of the World, the World-Telegram editorialized, in language less elegant, less thunderous but no less clear than Joseph Pul-itzer's writers used to use: ''Soon the idea may get across to Tammany. Soon Tammany may wake up and realize that even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News...
...President Lowell thinks he wasn't recognized. That may be so. Still, they couldn't have thought he was Butch Mc-Guiness, the hammer thrower. At least the students knew that here was an old gentleman of academic demeanor who would have nothing worthwhile to contribute if the talk veered around to the relative merits of Camera and Jack Shar- key. If A. Lawrence Lowell wants to know what students talk about he'd better send a dictaphone next time and stay away.. . . He might even hear something about A. Lawrence Lowell...
...American Airways and to Condor Lines (subsidiary of Germany's Lufthansa; headed by able Fritz Hammer) the possible failure of Aeropostale meant more than just the removal of their most powerful competitor. It also raised the question: Who would acquire Aeropostale's highly developed airways in South America? Aeropostale had spent most of its subsidy on airports (34) and airways (5,800 mi.) from Natal (Brazil) south to Gallegos, and across the Andes from Buenos Aires to Santiago, and from Buenos Aires to Asuncion. Also it operates an interior service in Venezuela. Unlike its competitors, Aeropostale flew by night...
...Skyrocket," an individual who dives 80 ft., his clothes flaming, into a little tank of water-"Candy" Hammer and his Congress of Wild West Riders of the World - the Van de Velde Family, "Greatest gymnasts of all time!"-Mayme Ward, the only lady catcher in the world and her troupe of Flying Wards (29 people in the air at one & the same time!)- who would be hiring and advertising such folk but the greatest show-business man now on earth, John Ringling...
...shot put, won by R. A. Skaife '34 with a heave of 43 feet, 10 inches was the first field event of the day. H. W. Reid outclassed the field in the 35-pound weight throw, when he tossed the heavy hammer 52 feet, six inches. In spite of a handicap of one foot, ten inches. Otto Sutermeister had no trouble in winning the pole vault with a lead of 12 feet six inches. Then in the last event of the day, the class of 1934 cleaned up, Isadore Herman '34, J. J. Healey '34, and A. P. Bonney...