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Word: throwed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leverett entered the win column by means of a lone first period touchdown against the Bellboys. The counter came after a sustained drive, starting and concluding with successful pass plays. The scoring throw went from Dick Reynolds to Ken Herlihy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Eliot Mauls Dunster, 20-0; Lowell Whitewashed by Bunnies, 6-0 | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...night at the Garden the hero is down on the canvas when he sees the gambler at the ringside grimacing at him to quit. This burns him so much that he leaps up and wins the fight, like that. Soon after, the gambler's goons throw the hero into the Hudson River, but he survives and goes to live in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: The Hair of the Dog | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Married a Communist (RKO Radio) is a celluloid bullet aimed at the U.S.S.R. -a stock gangster film with Communists dubbed into the underworld roles. Its moral is addressed to the women: don't throw over a solid union man (acted in a pleasantly wooden way by Richard Roper) for a ruggedly handsome executive (Robert Ryan) whose secretive behavior indicates that he was once a Communist agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...fastest teams in the country. That means that backer-ups should be able to get to the flanks quickly to squelch end runs. On the Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston, were playing despite injuries which slowed them up and made it difficult for them to carry out their assignments on end runs. These circumstances combined to make an outside game very difficult against a team with Cornell...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...what about our grandstand quarterback's second suggestion, that Harvard should throw fewer passes. This was a magnificent example of the second guess in action, coming, as it did, hard on the heels of the Cornell touchdown scored by intercepting a Noonan pass to the right flank. What the second-guesser forgot was the Harvard Managed to gain twice as much yardage through the air as on the ground (187 to 91). In fact, lack of defense against short passes was just about the only weakness Cornell showed. It was this that led Valpey to make short passes...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

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