Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor politician. He gets into the papers with his economic pronouncements, but he has no small talk. Anecdote finds him very stony soil in which to take root; he has none of the blandishments nor much of that kind of acumen necessary to politicians. Many men think that he threw away the best kind of chance for the Presidency...
...Book Flung across House of Commons!", "Wild Ulsterite Attacks Winston Churchill!" Such were the sensational headlines in which Mr. Ronald McNeill, an Irish-Barrister-M.P., achieved notoriety in 1914. Differing with the genial "Winnie" Churchill over the momentous Ulster border question, he threw a book at him-a small one. Recent events caused the incident to be recalled with chuckles...
Bishop Murray, now eligible to the courtesy title of "Most Reverend," was born into a Methodist family of Maryland 68 years ago, and early developed a penchant for the Christian ministry. But before his education had been completed, circumstances threw him into money-making and set him down on a bookkeeper's stool in the Osage Coal and Mining Co., Selma, Ala. He rose, prospered. In 1892 he was a banker, a broker, a potential payer of income surtaxes. Having compounded with the market place, he was two years later ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and sent as missionary...
...years ago, pushed together seats through the press section; a white team (Pittsburg), a grey team (Washington), which had been warming up along the edges of a field earnestly green, looked up at a box wherein Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, stood with a ball in his hand. He threw it as far as he could, and the 1925 World's Series began...
Open football was not resorted to by either team. Only three passes were attempted in the entire game, of which Andover completed one. Harvard's only try failed. The remainder of the game was the exchange of punts interspersed with straight football. Campbell threw in his entire reserve strength during the final quarter in an effort to score, but the strong Andover defense turned the Crimson back...