Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound hammer throw...
Events planned for Friday include the javelin, 16-pound hammer, 16-pound shot, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, and discus. On Saturday the program will feature the 100, 220, 440, 880, mile, two-mile, 120-yard high hurdles and 220-yard low hurdles. No relays will be run. To make sure everybody has an equal chance, handicaps will be assigned by the coaches...
Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin, who happened to be presiding, recognized the gallery immediately-with an order to clear it. But before Citizen Brooks Washburn, a well-heeled, 32-year-old Portland, Ore. war veteran, went down under the hammer locks of Capitol police, he addressed the chair again. "Mr. President," he yelled with muffled frenzy, "these men are bothering...
...this year, with seasoned veterans hitting their prewar stride, Coach Mikkola's team may give the man who letters in the new records a busy season. Without crawling too far out on the limb, it is safe to say that records in the hammer, shot, discus, pole-vault, and hurdles will all be in serious jeopardy as soon as official competition gets under...
...Javelin--R. C. Johnson '36, May 25, 1935. Distance--208 ft., 6 in. Discuss--J. H. Dean '34, May 19, 1934. Distance--157 ft., 7 3/4 in. Shot-put (16 lbs.)--H. P. Mendel '40, June 1, 1940. Distance--50 ft., 6 3/4 in. Hammer-throw (16 lbs.)--W. J. Shallow '40, May 20, 1939. Distance...