Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...addition to the Cricket Matches and Boat Races, the English Universities have trials of skill in running, jumping, throwing the hammer, etc., which have been very successful and have attracted a good deal of attention...
Though this is perhaps the most serious evil of their careless generosity, it is not nearly so vexatious as the daily calls of bejewelled purchasers of old clothes, clerical-looking venders of every useless article, and begging impostors who tramp up and down our stairs and hammer at our doors...