Word: flings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eaton, who holds the record of four and two-fifths seconds for the forty-yard dash, will be on hand to watch the stars of today take a fling at his title. Miller and Burns will go into the preliminary heats with Murchison, often hailed as America's premier sprinter, Hussey a Freshman at Boston College, who startled track circles last year by his performances on the cinders while still a schoolboy, Leconey, a member of the Olympic team two years ago, Clark, formerly of Johns Hopkins, and intercollegiate 100-yard titleholder, and Houben, the German star...
...papers have had their fling at the students of Northwestern University who recently staged so striking a demonstration to commemorate their football successes of the past season. The celebration took the form of incendiarism. Revelers set fire to an abandoned fraternity house and to the wooden stands surrounding the old athletic field...
...reply for the U. S. sections was delivered by Arthur Judson Brown, who for two generations has given the command to Presbyterian missions to "fling out the banner" that "nations waiting to be born" might "baptize their spirits in its light...
...House of Lords behaved with too much gayety in the face of this stupendous bill for the emancipation of the male. Perhaps they feared that Lady Astor would soon make good her threat to make the House of Lords co-educational, and so decided to have their little fling at a woman while they could...
...would have been simple enough to fling the signals on, to Europe, to Asia, even on around the globe to Hawaii whence they had started. Instead, Station RCA brought them down into a last telegraph line, shot them in to Manhattan...