Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Junior Davis was more than just a crack football back. In West Point's difficult Master of the Sword test (it includes chin-ups, rope-climb, vertical jump, softball throw) he broke the Academy record with 926½ points. In basketball, Davis was a good forward; in baseball, a talented centerfielder. Wise Branch Rickey has said that Davis was worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet...
...getting out of hand, he was moved to take over the Tribune farm column for a short essay on weapons: "The firearms manufacturers," he wrote, "have been dead from the neck up for about 40 years. . . . The crow easily gets away from anything the old-fashioned shotgun can throw at him. There is needed a crow gun to decimate this pest...
...reason for his Tribune's success is that McCormick has simply made it indispensable. No paper in all Chicagoland can match its overwhelming coverage of the news. When a big story breaks, the Trib can throw a score of men on it to outreport and outwrite the opposition. In sports, in comics, women's pages, signed columns and display ads it offers all things to all people. It is the housewife's guide, the politician's breakfast food, a bible to hundreds of small-town editorial writers. A classless paper, it is read on the commuter...
Harvard track took another long step forward last weekend when 10 Varsity specialists vaulted; throw, and hurdled their way to a third-place tie in he 71st annual outdoor IC4A championships on sun-backed Franklin Field, Philadelphia NYU, with 36 points, was the winner, Michigan State scored 25 points for second place, and the Crimson and Penn State each had 24 Forty-four other colleges also...
...Crimson point winners came through pretty much as Coach Mikkola had expected. Captain Wes Flint took thirds in both hurdles, Freshman Don Trimble won the javelin throw, Pete Harwood annexed the pole vault title, Bill Jackson was fifth in the shot, and Jack Fisher and Sam Felton placed two-three in the hammer...