Word: threw
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were brought into the ring to decide the championships of the University in the various weight classes. All of the bouts were very evenly contested, and resulted in close decisions. There was but one fall during the whole evening, and that came in the 175-pound match, when Burnham threw Brown after an eight-minute tussle. The liveliest bouts were staged in the 145-pound class, in the 175-pound class, and in the heavy-weight class. The greatest interest was centered about the heavyweight match, in which W. B. Snow '18, captain of the University wrestling team...
...immediate mobilization--a definite and essential part in the national defence. As such they must be a powerful, disciplined organization, fitted for difficult tasks and heavy responsibilities. They must be able to act promptly and intelligently in great emergencies, just as the French reservists in the present war, who threw themselves into the breach and saved their nation from defeat...
...final competitions only one bout was won on a fall, and that was when Potter of Yale threw S. Burnham...
After a sleepless night the CRIMSON began to see red, and on the morning of February 14 it threw a fit: "Only 600 men in Harvard University have thus far aroused themselves from their comfortable state of lethargy. . . . Will it take the very rumble of the enemy's guns to convince them? . . . Ordinary peace-time excuses are no longer excuses" Shades of Patrick Henry! Here is the CRIMSON transformed from a modest advocate of universal preparedness for social efficiency into a war conjurer. These words are wonderfully like the cries of other people in 1914: The enemy is coming...
...pound class: R. W. Killam '19 threw Wright (Brown...