Word: throw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team backfield lined up the same as it did the day before yesterday with Bill Coleman operating at quarter, Charley Spreyer at tailback, Joe Gardella at wingback, and George Heiden in the bucking role. Spreyer continued to throw a large share of the passes, and it begins to look like most of the Crimson hopes when they step into Palmer Stadium on Saturday in defense of their Big Three title rest on his shoulders...
...stealing $14,000 from his Bund, Fritz Kuhn was able to leave Manhattan only by permission of the court. Jittery and angry, Witness Kuhn got off to a bad start. When a spectator murmured an epithet, Fritz Kuhn roared: "Stand back! I'll ask the chairman to throw you out if you make remarks about me!" Chairman Dies threw out no spectators, but did ask newsreel cameramen to turn off their lights "because they bother Mr. Kuhn...
...last week some 200,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were across the Channel and safely in place. They continued arriving by night, three or four transports at a time, without interruptions. German submarines and the great German Air Force did not even throw a leaflet at them-just as the Allies did little to prevent the Germans from bringing up hundreds of thousands of men and tons of supplies to man the West-wall...
...divergence between these two descriptions of business was more than half political. Under Secretary Hanes spoke for the Pollyanna wing of the Administration, which is not at all anxious to throw any stumbling blocks in the way of recovery that the Government does not have to pay for. Secretary Hopkins and ghostwriters spoke for the New Deal wing, which has no real faith that Business ever will produce prosperity and wants to be on record against the day when the boom collapses and more appropriations will be asked from Congress...
National American Legion champion, Jeanne Ladd of Swampscott, has already indicated her willingness to throw over Swampscott High for a Harvard affiliation, saying "they're nice boys; they generally get what they want?" Other fast-stepping twirlers are expected to follow Jeanne's lead...