Word: hammerism
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...presidents of the Harvard and Yale University Athletic Clubs. The conditions of adoption were that the meet should consist of the nine events which normally comprised an Oxford-Cambridge meet (the 100-yard dash, quarter-mile, half-mile, mile, three-mile, 120-yard high hurdles, high jump, hammer throw, and long jump [broad jump...
...record of 1:55.6 in the half-mile and winning the American-sized distance race, the two-mile. J. S. Spraker of Yale also scored a double win, taking the high jump at a record 6 feet, 1 1/2 inches, and the broad jump. Boal again won the hammer, while O-C won the mile, and H-Y the 100, 440, and hurdles...
...Shevlin (Y) broke the hammer record with a heave of 152 feet, 8 inches, and H. W. Gregson set another when he won the mile in 4:21.2. W. A. Schick became the first of eight Crimson runners to share the existing Harvard 100-yard dash mark, when...
Actually, it took an American to beat the Americans. G. E. Putnam, a giant displaced Kansan, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, won the hammer for the only British win in this event, which was dropped after the following meet...
...commissar lean on each other in a breathtakingly precarious balancing act. protecting each other against extremists in both the Catholic and the Communist camp, personally opposed in everything except Polish patriotism and a talent for tough-minded compromise. It is a strange coexistence between the cross and the hammer-and-sickle. But Masses are crowded, public schools are swamped with applications for religious instruction that is once again permitted without interference. Everyone seems to be wearing crosses and holy medals, and even the prosperous Red bourgeoisie of state officials can occasionally be seen bundling their children to church...