Word: hurled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross beams of the tribe's Big House. This building fell down in 1910, and the statue was left undisturbed until noted by Mr. Arnold. At that time the Indians refused to part with the effigy, but later, according to the museum plague, a missionary persuaded the tribe to hurl the huge pole into the sea. It was subsequently washed as here on Vancouver Island, where Mr. Arnold found it and had it shipped to Maine...
...witch doctor. Years before his hands had been cut off for striking a white man who was ravishing his sister. Impersonal, implacable, patient, he waits the consummation of justice, knowing his thought will eventually bring his enemy within range of his assagai which he has learned to hurl with his feet. He has his revenge...
...sources, as well as conclusions, but they cannot say he has failed to back up his generalizations with evidence. He writes with temperate civility, trying to make his case intellectually rather than emotionally, and only on rare occasions does he step out of his role of scholarly logician to hurl the professional thunderbolts of Communist rhetoric...
...German youth! Throw from you the last remnants of your Christian education, which destroys the character of Nordic man. Hurl from you the Jewish-Christian ideas of sinfulness, pity and love for your enemies...
...laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va. Planned for completion within a year, the 154-ft. tunnel will be made of reinforced concrete with steel-plated walls. Through its test chamber, 8-ft, in diameter, fans driven by 8,000-h.p. motors will hurl a 500-m.p.h. hurricane. Said the committee in a special report to President Roosevelt: "Airplane speeds upward of 500 m.p.h. are attainable, but knowledge is lacking as to the natural laws governing air flow above 200 m.p.h. . . . This wind tunnel is the greatest need in aviation today...