Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place, then plodded away without looking back...
...Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Sophia Kamius, 26, reached for a cookie on top of a cupboard. The cupboard fell on her. Neighbors arrived, thought she had been robbed, called the police. A police car speeding to the scene careened into an-other car, threw three officers into the street...
...executed, charged with proposing marriage to Princess Elizabeth without young King Edward's consent. Finding herself under suspicion, the 15-year-old Princess craftily sought to prove herself not pregnant by offering to go "to the court . . . that I may show myself there as I am." Intrigues threw her in jail whence she bombarded Queen Mary Tudor with letters demanding to be released...
...bells on the harness. He was a good salesman. When other manufacturers cut under his father's prices he raised Wrigley scouring soap to retail at 10? instead of 3? and gave dealers an umbrella with every box they bought. He added baking powder to his line, and threw in a cook book or a box of chewing gum with every can. Finding that the gum went better than the baking powder he concentrated on that and gave away with it cash-registers, cheese-cutters, scales and desks. Often his premiums wiped out his profits and he never made...
...Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night they...