Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitors threw a scare into the first-year men in the second half when they caged a remarkable succession of long shots, and went into the lead. The Crimson teamplay and Slocum's uncanny shooting put the Freshmen back into the lead, however, and they were never headed...
Illiteracy, like all evils, is sometimes a blessing. So thinks the Russian Ministry of Education, at all events. Of late the Ministry took the Russian alphabet in hand, examined it for superfluous members, pruned here, excised there, threw five letters out bodily, published a new, curtailed alphabet which shortens the written Russian language by one-twelfth and makes its spelling "twice as logical." It was pointed out that had not illiteracy abounded in Russia, the Ministry would have encountered the same difficulty faced by the late Theodore Roosevelt
...hopelessly namby-pamby as the two undergraduates in the first act who slap, each other on the back and begin all their remarks with "Well, you know, old man".... Messrs. Glibert and Morgan farther removed this dialogue from the sublime by the would-be kittenish manner in which they threw boxing gloves at each other, always taking the greatest pains to miss...
...night on which she was to have realized her life's ambition by appearing as Viola in Twelfth Night. Instead of being page to Duke Orsino, she put on an air signifying that Duke Orsino was page to her; she cut all other parts with mighty shears; she threw out her lines like strings of sausage out of a sausage machine. But on the great night itself, after splitting her green jacket up the back, Actress Jenkinson collapsed in a heap. The heap was a forlorn old woman...
...English county meets Mr. Belmont was praised by grooms and squires alike for his skill at point-to-point riding. He played polo until injured in 1911, when his pony stepped in a mole-hole, and severely threw him. As a Harvard sprinter in the early 70's, he introduced the wearing of steel spikes in cinder track meets...