Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...
Pierre Fronval looped 1,111 consecutive, uninterrupted loops, in 4 hrs. 56 min. at Velizy airdrome outside Paris. Each loop was followed by an official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
...most of the students concerned. With the era preceding the outbreak of the Civil War as the topic of the lecture, the professor offered a half hour's debate with two history instructors as the proponents of abolition and slavery. The two went at the subject and each other hammer and tongs, according to the purpose of the experiment--to reproduce as accurately as might be the debates of the '40's and '50's, portraying the prejudices of the times and the sectional antipathies...
...have no man who has officially thrown the hammer 180 feet, but there are several Americans who can reach the 160 foot mark, and they are bound to improve by July," E. L. Farrell, University track mentor said yesterday, as he continued his series of interviews with the CRIMSON, discussing America's track prospects at the coming Olympics...
...would probably take the second, third, fourth, and fifth places, as Ide from Penn State has done 162 feet, and Linn and Black have reached the 160 foot mark. "Then of course there is McGrath, who will compete in the Olympics for the fourth time, and has thrown the hammer a distance of 170 feet," Farrell remarked...