Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety. In one number, they moved smoothly, as if on roller skates ("the Russian glide," one critic called it); in another, they did a stomping Cossack dance that shook the floor boards. They formed a troika (with three girls acting as horses), chains, arrows and everything but the hammer & sickle. Most impressive was a number in which 16 girls dressed in silk-embroidered costumes executed parade-ground drills with a precision to rival the Rockettes. There was also a complicated swan dance with each girl holding up a hand to resemble a swan's head, on each hand...
Yale's strength lies in the field events, and, to be exact, in any event Thomson, Henderson, or Donegan compete. The first two are huge weight men, and the last, a pole vaulter. Last Saturday against Princeton, Thomson took the shot put and the discus; Henderson took the hammer; and Donegan tied for first in the pole vault. In addition Thomson finished second in the hammer; Henderson second in the shot...
With Pete Harpel breaking the record for the hammer throw, the freshman track team also crushed Brown, 108 to 32. Harpel's toss of 157' 4" broke Whitey Black's 153' 7 1/4" made...
When her triplets were born in 1934, Sculptress Barbara Hepworth laid aside her hammer and chisel for a whole month. Otherwise, domestic duties have rarely kept her from her work as an artist. As a result of this dedicated cultivation of her talents, Barbara Hepworth, now 51, is one of the world's top sculptors, and last week London's Whitechapel Art Gallery was having the biggest retrospective show of her work ever held...
...step out on the intake and look up without being inspired." M-K introduced bulldozers to its partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great scaffolds on which men with 40 drills could hammer away at the same time, thus cutting costs drastically. Hoover was finished in five years, and MK's share of the $10.4 million profit was about...