Word: hammerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a special need in the field events department this year. Marshall, the University mainstay in the hammer, will be gone, while both Davis and Reidy, who divided the pole-vault honors between them, last spring, have graduated. Broad-jumping is also a weak department, and will need considerable bolstering before spring...
...this debating. Nothing could more surely force him to abandon his unadorned logic for a freer, more appealing style. His opponents will use logic, but of an entirely different kind adapted to winning an audience. He will have to pay regard to the antagonism which his usual trip-hammer, hard hitting methods will surely raise in minds which are persuaded not coerced. Such training is the next logical step in humanizing college debating...
...hammer at the doctor's door...
Field events: putting the shot, throwing the javelin, pole vaulting, running high jump, running broad jump, throwing the hammer and throwing the discus...
...Republican Party. Said he: " Conditions have changed for the worse since Taft's time. In fact, they arc five-fold worse than they were then. This is the group that does the financing of the Republican Party. If Roosevelt were alive, no doubt he would be after it hammer and tongs, and denouncing its members for the political porch-climbers and second-story men that they...