Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Buffalo, Barcalo Manufacturing Co. made and marketed a combination screw driver, screw cap wrench, punch opener, hammer, bottle opener, cutting edge and slot-to-make-a-can-pouring...
...knew the British fliers were tough babies. . . . But I never fully realized quite how tough they were until the other afternoon when I was out on a British airdrome. There was a low, overcast sky. A plane broke through the clouds. The British anti-aircraft artillery went after it hammer and tongs. It was clear to me that it was a British Spitfire, but it was not clear to them. They shot at it with machine guns until it was on the ground, and continued shooting as it taxied up. The plane taxied up to the line...
Griswold has been puttering away at bone carpentry, improving fracture methods that were developed during World War I. He has patched hundreds of broken legs-with hammer and nails...
LONDON--Striking trip-hammer blows at Germany's naval "invasion forces," the Royal Air Force today reported a blasting attack on new Nazi warships being built in the Hamburg dockyards and disorganization of a large convey of armed cargo ships off Dunkerque...
...looked as if Mrs. Howe would make it three in a row. But in spite of her 800 golf prizes, Mrs. Howe failed to keep her head down, flubbed three successive shots on the seventh hole, wound up with a first-round 87, two strokes behind Beatrice Stevens Hammer Stevens of Greenwich, Conn...