Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auctioneer dropped his hammer and a boy trotted out behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged...
Alcock hurled the hammer 138 feet, 8 3-4 inches to take fourth in the hammer throw. First and third places in this event went to Cornell, and second to the University of Pittsburgh...
...University relay team returned from the Penn Relays yesterday, a second place winner, after its first official race of the outdoor season Saturday. In these games, held on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, T. H. Alcock '29 placed fourth in the hammer throw...
...mile relay event, the only one, except the hammer throw, entered by the University, the college championship of America went to Bates College, when the Lewiston outfit's last two runners overcame the early Harvard lead to break the tape between 25 and 30 yards ahead of R. P. Porter '28, anchor...
...sending a two-mile relay team composed of Captain A. H. O'Neil '28, F. E. Cummings '30, W. C. Peet '28, and R. P. Porter '29, who will run in the order named. T. H. Alcock '29 is also making the trip, and will compete in the hammer throw...