Search Details

Word: threw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

When swift motors carried the Macdonalds to Boston, Ishbel cried: "Oh, we must go down to the wharf where the Indians threw tea into the harbor-Boston Tea Party, you know, Dads." Soon they stood upon what purports to be the very wharf. Later, proceeding to Philadelphia, Mr. Macdonald contracted bronchitis, was taken to Jefferson Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Labor Travels | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...right wrist having recovered from lameness, the President threw a white baseball to Tristram Speaker to open the season for the Washington nine. Mrs. Coolidge wore a green hat, a green coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...very jovial was the manner in which a mob, roused by the priests last week, set out to discipline women less docile than the ancient queen. Three women who were caught veilless were bound to stakes and exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died. One youthful male Communist was likewise bound, reviled by the Ichans (Priests), and beaten to death with flails, despite attempts by the police to rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: SAMARKAND | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

With the zeal typical of a converted sinner Chiang threw himself into active fighting in the cause of the great Dr. Sun Yatsen, late "Father of the Chinese Republic." Dr. Sun was at this time experiencing reverses, having been driven from Canton, his capital, by his own War Minister. Soon Chiang Kai-shek with 10,000 men had materially assisted in driving the traitor War Minister out of Canton, and back to his walled stronghold Waichow, a city deemed impregnable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CONQUEROR | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life; minions of the Holy See threw his ashes and the sod beneath his feet into the Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: HERETIC OR HERO | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | Next