Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delicate, pretty, pale face appearing as fine chalk contrasted with charcoal. Under a searching cross-examination in a sympathetically inclined court where men and women sat silent with tears streaming from their eyes, she told her story: She and the young author fell in love, became engaged. The future threw wide its arms to receive them in happiness. She was successful, he was successful. Then came a tragic day when her fiance learned that he was suffering from incurable cancer and tuberculosis. All that was in Poland...
...sped the cyclist, passed the carriage, threw the contents of his bottle (acid) at the Cadi who was badly burned about the neck, chest, left hand, suffered from shock...
...producing darkness, it struck the country districts worst, and particularly the poultry. Hens lay scientifically nowadays; they run on schedule, any interference with their routine being disastrous, as members of the Business School know. Now one of the worst effects of the eclipse was the confusion that it threw among hens. Some were laying: a few had laid, but the vast majority were just getting ready when darkness fell! All laying ceased. The hens, terrified, flew to their roosts in confusion and dismay; remaining in suspense the rest of the day. The egg production for Saturday was frightfully curtailed. Worse...
...American statesmanship that first threw out the idea which has fructified in the Dawes scheme. That scheme has thus been sure from the start of the good wishes of the American people. But it is now the adopted instrument of the American Government. The U.S. is at this moment definitely and officially associated with the task of applying it. She has what she has not had before, a Governmental stake in its success...
...Tsar Alexander II. was driving along the bank of the St. Michael Canal wren a young man threw what appeared to be a snowball at the Imperial sledge. The snowball went off with a thundering detonation, the carriage was shattered, two men of the Tsar's escort were killed outright, many were wounded; but Alexander escaped scot-free...