Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Treasury. The management of Austrian finance under the League of Nations for years after the War, the economic crumbs which the Allies gave to Austria because they wished to avert her collapse, and in the last few years the economic favors Italy showered upon Austria-before Mussolini finally threw Schuschnigg overboard and teamed up with Hitler-all these factors have made Austria not only economically far better off than Germany but in reasonably "sound" condition from an orthodox economic viewpoint...
...small Irish jumper, Sir Francis Towle's Airgead Sios, raced ahead of the field at the start. Jump after jump he took beautifully until the tenth fence, just beyond Valentine's Brook, there he fell and threw his jockey. Delachance, the American favorite, swept into the lead, was still pacing the pack over the water jump before the grandstand, when Rock Lad, only Canadian-owned horse in the race, fell. He crawled out with a broken back. An ambulance drove out on the track to destroy him and remove his body, as Delachance led 18 survivors...
...principal social relaxation after five working days in which 1) the directors of TVA carried their family squabble into his White House office (see p. 14), 2) the nation's deepening Recession was abetted by the shocking business failure of an old Grottie, and 3) Adolf Hitler threw Europe into a panic for the second time in a month, was the annual White House Correspondents' dinner...
...Cowgill of Yale declared that the vitamin seemed to help in the metabolism of carbohydrates by acting as a coenzyme. Other than that it seemed to have no effect on normal organs, and overdoses did not hurt a normal body. The human system simply took what it needed and threw away the rest...
Novelist Ernest Hemingway, refereeing a Negro prizefight at Key West, Fla. was counting out one of the fighters when a Negro second threw in a towel. Referee Hemingway threw it out. The second jumped into the ring, swung at the referee. Mr. Hemingway gave him a left jab to the chin, twisted his ear. Said Referee Hemingway, "He must have lost his head...