Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After they had been up a while, the instructor unhooked his control stick, showed it to the student, and threw it overboard with a great flourish and a malicious grin...
Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause...
...University matches, which also provided some surprises. One of these came in the 158-pound class, when J. F. Solano '30 gave Captain Miller of Yale his second defeat in three seasons of wrestling. The other upset was provided in the 135-pound class when Sargent of Yale threw Joseph Lifrak '29, New England intercollegiate champion...
...Edwards of the Canadian Club of Boston presided, and threw the floor open for discussion immediately after the close of the last speech...
...India I remember three things-blistering heat, air currents that threw my plane and me about like a shuttlecock and endless crowds of kind-hearted people pressing hospitality upon me." Calcutta's port . . . Burmese forests . . . Singapore, where mud hindered his take-off and made him almost strike low buildings. Over Melanasia, and the East Indies tropical rains swept around...