Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful...
...Yorker but no N.Y.U. alumnus, was soon discovered, but Pittsburgh police could not extradite him for malicious mischief. Meantime, the institute's scientists in whom U.S. tycoons have invested $11,478,406 for industrial research, notably into paints and chemicals, threw all their resources into removing the black asphalt paint. In the end, they could think of no better means than to set stonecutters to work laboriously chipping away one thirty-second of an inch of the 300-ft. surface...
Soon after the opening of the second quarter the powerful defenders pushed the ball over again and made the point. Dunster threw the Kirkland boys deep into their own territory by a quick kick which was entirely unexpected., and sailed over the head of the safety...
...where she worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer Charles J. Hull had surrendered to the encroaching slums, her ribald neighbors threw garbage onto her porch, stones through her windows. In the half-century that followed Hull House was to grow over two city blocks, become one of the biggest, certainly the most famed of U. S. settlement houses. It was also to span and partially inspire the nation's great...
...Burr and his subject delayed the operation until the day when previous microvoltmetre readings predicted an ovum would rupture out of a follicle of an ovary and cause a faint electrical upset. That overture to gestation occurred at 7:05 p.m. July 24 and threw the microvoltmetre out of whack for several seconds. Immediately the woman's potential slowly decreased. Said Dr. Burr last week: "The condition continued until midnight when the experiment was terminated in order that the patient might obtain a night's rest. Next morning a laparotomy was done, the ovaries examined...