Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King, was thrown from a restive horse at Aldershot and suffered a broken ankle. The Prince went to the aid of a recruit who was having some difficulty with his horse. Mounting in place of the trooper the Prince was getting the animal fairly in hand when it threw him and rolled on him. Thus is the reputation of the House of Windsor well sustained, the King, Wales and Henry all having been thrown at one time or another -Wales leading, of course. Prince Henry William Frederick Albert is the fourth child of the King and Queen, and their third...
During his campaign he spoke in shirt sleeves and suspenders. When he got into action, with one rip, he tore off his collar and tie and threw them on the ground. "Don't get nervous,' he would shout, "I will remove nothing else whatsoever...
Tests made on land with the new 4,300-pound demolition bomb, carried by a Handley Page aeroplane, illustrated the power of the new weapon. Released from midair, the bomb buried itself in compact, sandy soil. A moment later the explosion threw soil almost 1,000 feet into the air and left a crater 19 feet deep, 64 feet in diameter. One thousand cubic yards of earth had been displaced...
Michigan is a state that has voted dry by substantial majorities several times since 1916. Previous to that it was rapidly becoming dry by local option. Senator Couzens virtually threw his gauntlet in the face of this sentiment by declaring that 5% beer was neither worse nor more intoxicating than tea or coffee...
...solemn ceremony at which the tablet was unveiled to the memory of the great American Ambassador. . . . There is a date of supreme importance to the calendar of Anglo-Sax-ondom more recent than that of Independence Day, and it is that one on which America entered the War and threw herself into the struggle for right and justice...