Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was not all or even mostly a brave gesture of contempt for the schools of art represented. It was one more of Germany's ingenious efforts to get foreign exchange. Total value placed on the collection was about a quarter-million dollars. But after the hammer had fallen all one stifling hot day amid a quiet, correct and much photographed international crowd, Nazi sellers were greatly disappointed. Six pictures remained unsold and returns on the others totaled about...
...mark for consecutive testimony was set last spring by Edward K. Davis, publicity-shy president of Aluminium Limited of Canada. Younger brother (59) of Alcoa's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, Mr. Davis held the stand for six and a half weeks while the Government went after him hammer & tongs trying to show that Aluminium Ltd. is not a separate, independent corporation, but an international stooge set up by Alcoa. When he was finally excused, Harvardman Davis was glad to get back to his 400-acre estate on Cape Cod, where he raises fine flowers and succulent vegetables, works...
...years Sigmund Freud has insisted on talking seriously about subjects that other people did not want to discuss. When he began lecturing on the sexual basis of neuroses, in Vienna in 1896, his worldly colleagues regarded him with the embarrassed annoyance reserved for those who hammer away at something people would rather not talk about, even if talking would teach them something. But for laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds...
...tobacco marketing case was another basic shift effected by Mr. Roberts & friends. By distinguishing between the production of farm goods and their marketing, and declaring the latter a proper sphere for Federal control, the historic commerce clause of the Constitution was liberalized and the ancient precedent of Hammer v. Dagenhart abandoned-one of three landmarks which Janizary Tom Corcoran vowed to erase before leaving Washington...
With the exception of the substitution of a three-mile for a two-mile run, the track events in the meet will not differ from American distance. The field events, however, will be pared down to broad jump, high jump, pole vault, and shot put, criminating the discus, hammer and javelin thrown...