Word: hurl
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...javelin. After establishing a new dual meet spear record against Princeton with a throw of 186 feet 6 3-8 inches, Bench received the Intercollegiate gold medal at Philadelphia. Cheek of Harvard should be able to displace the Eli's second man, Davison. The Crimson football captain elect can hurl the javelin two or three yards further than his rival
...appeared at once that it was a far more difficult task to hurl a football through an 18-inch aperture from a distance of 20 feet than the originator of the game had anticipated. Last night it was suggested that it might be necessary either to lessen the safety zone to a shorter distance than 20 feet or else increase the size of the holes...
...selling notes, if his wares were an intellectual achievement. Widener would scarcely suspend permanently the privileges of a man for defacing a book, if the comments he inscribed in the margin were pithy or well-taken. Professors would be inclined to adopt a graded system of epithets to hurl at those who happen to go to sleep during their lectures, depending upon the general interest of the discourse. The penalty for wearing a hat into the classroom might even be lightened, if the particular hat were modish and worthy of being exhibited. And Yard "cops" will no doubt allow...
Then Notre Dame flaunted her power. Back by her own goal she unbottled a pass. Nevers of Stanford pulled it down and proceeded furiously to hurl his 200 pounds into the Notre Dame...
...always charmingly wrapped in a golden haze, the future in this case is no less pleasing. For year after year the undergraduate has listened apathetically to appeals for his interest in the seething world outside. Except when such participation promised a gay torchlight procession or a chance to hurl milk bottles without interference it moved him not. But when deans and presidents themselves rush from the cloister the undergraduates will doubtless fling aside robes and sandals and plunge into the whirring world...