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Word: hammerlock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Howland Stoddard was the solo Harvard wrestler to qualify in the first day of competition in the Eastern Intercollegiates here today, when he throw Barnet of Columbia with a half-nelson and body at 4.01, and then pinned Masher of Cornell in the semi-finals with a hammerlock and half-nelson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...work). He has an elaborate machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown him the white man's leg-scissor hold, toehold, and hammerlock, he obtains zinc and copper (cheerfully left unexplained) and two radio tubes the savage With these and several score handmade batteries, he makes a radio set, listens happily to news of traffic deaths, business suicides, cosmetics and alimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

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