Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of the afternoon was the bout between R. H. Hopkins 31, and Joseph Hammer '28, which ended without a decision from the judges. It was brought to a sudden close when Hopkins, colliding with his opponent in a clinch, lost a tooth in the latter's head. Hammer was taken to Wadsworth House for treatment. Over 200 people witnessed the matches...
...their misery, Germans gazed at their newspapers, read of an appalling crime. Two boys, one 16 years old, the other 14, entered their parents' bedroom where they were sleeping with their two small daughters. The 14-year-old boy hit each of them on the head with a hammer; the older boy killed each with a hatchet. This was in the village of Weiher, near Kulmbach, Bavaria...
...they watch. In mockery they tell him that, if he forswears love, he will have power to steal the Rheingold; that if he steals the Rheingold, he will "own the world and all its mighty power." Alberich scrambles to the gold, curses love, vanishes. He has his brother Mime hammer the gold into a helmet which makes him invisible, into a magic ring. Wotan, father of the gods, needs the gold to pay a ransom, seeks out Alberich, takes ring and helmet from him. "Cursed is he who wears that ring," cries Alberich. Then lovely Erda, mother of the Norns...
...loud-tongued auctioneer addressed a vast crowd of official diplomatic and social Washingtonians. The furnishings of the home of the late Senator Frank D. Brandegee, who committed suicide last fall, had been put up at public sale. The hammer fell repeatedly as the public bought valuable furniture, Oriental rugs, beautiful books and a rare collection of paintings, etchings, prints, including many portraits of men of the Revolutionary period...
...great many potatoes have been grown since Martin Luther, hammer in hand, tacked his famed 95 theses on the church door at Wittenburg, in 1517. In 400 years the Christian Church has been split a hundred different ways by apostasy. Sects have sprung up like mushrooms in the night; few have died...