Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 14 colleges entered in the meet, which is scheduled to begin about 12:30. The races, everything from a 440-yard relay to a four-mile relay, will be the most exciting, but probably the most interesting event from a tract point of view is the college hammer throw, entered by Yale's Stew Thompson and Tom Henderson; Don Selfert of Brown; Nat Baker of Boston University; and John Morefield of M.I.T. Thompson is the favorite, but it should be close...
Tomorrow there will be no less than 17 events on the schedule, including freshman races and field events. In addition to the collegiate contests there will be a special Pre-Olympic A.A.U. hammer throw, featuring Hal Connolly, former Boston College star...
...believes that the statue was made largely of sheet-gold supported on a wooden framework. Phidias probably fashioned a model out of clay. From it he took clay negatives of the parts that were to be made of gold. When these were baked and reinforced with iron, goldsmiths could hammer their metal into them, reproducing faithfully the shape of the model. Along with the molds were found chisels and hammers of the type used by goldsmiths of the period...
...great moment for 39-year-old Roger. As a boy, under the nickname Bébert ("Dopey"), he had always been something of a joke. When he tried pole vaulting, the bamboo splintered. When he tried to throw the hammer, it fell on his toe. Next he tried marathon running, only to twist an ankle. "Poor Bébert," laughed the villagers of Favril, his boyhood home. They did not know that secretly Roger was reading up on sports, determined to become a champion. "Father," he said one day in 1946, "I'm leaving for Versailles. There...
Inspecting imported wheat last week, the manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...