Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sudden ruling threw into a quandary such New York City national banks with branches, as the City, Mechanics' and Metals, Chase, Chatham and Phenix. Subsequently it was discovered that the Attorney General's ruling covered only branch banks established since 1917; this relieved bankers' minds...
...Tiny was perspiring and in one final scene with Tiny and George, she and Tiny discovered they really were in love with each other and George that he was just the other man who has the big scene in the third act. So Tiny and Judith stayed married-Tiny threw out his arm and had to give up baseball for politics-Judith produced a novel that the rest of the intelligentsia thought was better than Jurgen, and a baby who was to be a home-run-king when he grew-and George wrote The Sun Field. The Significance. An interesting...
...ball on the 50 yard line, and with Maher, Cordingley, and Robb in the backfield, they forced their way down the field to within one and a half yards of the scrub's goal, where the ball was lost on downs. It was at this point that the scrubs threw their opponents for a five yard loss, after conceding another down to the University in order to see if they could score...
...American and English efficiency and self-sacrifice that saved the situation. Giving up their various occupations, business men threw themselves into their task, working from 18 to 20 hours...
...love for his wife. The great days passed-the Forrester fortune evaporated-Captain Forrester, crippled by a fall, spent years in dying-the pride of the house was brought down-yet Marian seemed to face Fate with a light, inflexible courage. She only broke down once, when Frank Ellinger threw her over and married-till Captain Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel...