Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife took turns walking up and down the floor with a sick baby. They heard automobiles stop in front of the house. Mr. Wilson got down his gun. Eight masked men came into the bedroom where the baby was wailing and Mr. Wilson was standing in the dark. They threw flashlight beams into his face and fired twice, killing...
...facts about Germany's "secret army" have, however, been rather thoroughly aired at a series of military trials. War Minister Gessler has been shown to have no great secret resources at his disposal; but to have used what he had for reactionary ends. This antagonized the Socialists, who threw their vote against the Cabinet last week. The Nationalists, disgruntled at Herr Gessler's half-hearted militarism, voted with their enemies the Socialists to oust the Marx Cabinet. This temporary "union of enemies," which flung the cabinet out 249 to 171, was, of course, partly due to the long...
...prison. Straight over the island sweeps the grey arch of Queensborough Bridge and across the bridge all day pass elevated trains, funeral carriages and people on foot. It is easy, standing on the bridge, to drop something down onto the island. Last week a man on the bridge threw away a tin tobacco...
...messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey's eastern end. This threw light on certain cryptic manuscripts. Architect Bond dug, gave up, consulted the ghost again, received fresh instructions, dug again and found King Edgar's masonry...
...little kingdom of Sardinia, the Italian states swept aside the Papal authority, threw off the Austrian yoke and laid the foundations of what has become under Mussolini, one of the Great Powers. And in this process of resurrection and reconstruction no man did move than Count Camillo di Gavour...