Word: throw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happened here was that a spanish bum and red did throw some Orange peels at a german marine while they paid their respect to our great martyr "Marti" at his monument with a flower design...
...could have originated only as a fragment of the big uranium atom, it was logical to suppose that the latter had cracked asunder, in two nearly equal parts. The release of atomic energy was 200,000,000 electron-volts. Heavy atoms had been "chipped" before -that is, forced to throw off small particles like neutrons-but this was the first time they had been cracked...
...Cantab triumph would throw the mythical Big Three race into a triple tie with Princeton, Yale and Harvard each having two wins and two defeats. By upsetting the Elis, the Crimson could salvage something from an otherwise disastrous season and turn in the pleasant achievement of whipping a Loeffler-coached team...
...Missouri made eloquent use of statistics: "The appropriation of $875,00,000 recommended by the Budget will keep 3,081,000 men at work," he said. "The appropriation of $725,000,000 recommended by the committee will employ only 1,930,000. In other words, the committee proposes to throw out of employment, in the dead of winter, 1,151,300 men... It is not necessary to draw on the imagination to understand what that mean to the business interests of the country...
...each department, operating through the proposed fact-finding committees, forestalls to a great extent personal bias and prejudice. It provides a much fairer and more competent method of ascertaining the abilities of each candidate, both in research and teaching. By its very nature, it makes for strength to throw off the yoke of the Corporation. The reaction of the official faculty committee now investigating tenure to this document of educational democracy should be of the utmost interest...