Word: throw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finlayson '32 won the handicap weight throw yesterday afternoon bringing to a close fall track activities. The event was open to all members of the University, but due to the nearness of the Christmas recess, only a few men participated. The outstanding feature of the event, however, was the showing of the Freshman material which had its first opportunity to demonstrate its worth in competition...
Finlayson, a member of the Freshman football team, threw the 35 pound weight a distance of 41 feet, 4 inches including a handicap of 20 inches. Second place was won by H. L. Movius '30 with a throw of 39 feet, 4 inches including a 24 inch handicap, while A. H. Crimmens '32 placed third with a heave of 39 feet including a 4 foot handicap...
...handicap 35 pound weight throw open to all members of the college and graduate schools, with medals to be awarded for the first three place winners, will be held in the old baseball cage tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. This event will officially close the 1928 season, although required Freshman track work and unofficial workouts will be in order until the beginning of the Christmas recess...
...Cornhuskers (p. 44 of the current issue of Most Estimable TIME) are so labelled because as every sapient editor knows, students at University of Nebraska are recruited largely from the wide, smiling, pleasant areas of the Corn Belt, and because, as to football players, many a lad learned to throw forward passes after having thrown unerringly into wagon boxes hundreds of thousands of ears of white and yellow Nebraska corn...
...ready to enter office in Cook County, Judge John A. Swanson. Robert E. Crowe, the Republican incumbent beaten by Swanson in the primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special Prosecutor Frank J. Loesch, the fearless, aging Presbyterian whom Chicago...