Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left to wonder . . . We have to reform our social habits, conquer our mental inertia, mercilessly throw away our pet customs and traditions before we can enjoy the fruits of science, before we can prepare against the growing dangers brought about by its constant unfoldings. Our airplanes . . . are supersonic, but our bodies are not yet supersonic. In such a world a dynamic, progressive, evolutionary, yet balanced, view of life is necessary for mankind...
...helicopter can "throw" a rotor blade, with immediately disastrous results. (This may have been what happened at Seattle and Providence.) The small tail rotor can and sometimes does come off, or get damaged. Engine failure by itself is not too serious, since a helicopter with a dead rotor acts like an autogiro and windmills down to earth...
This group, which hopes to pick up where it left off last Saturday at the Nonagonals, includes Harvard's 1-2 punch in the 16-pound hammer throw, Jack Fisher and Sam Felton; Captain Wes Flint in the high and low hurdles; Freshman javelin find, Don Trimble; pole vaulters Pete Harwood and Bill Lawrence; high jumper Gene Harrigan; Bill Jackson, who will put the shot and double in the discuss with Felton; Captain-elect Frank Gurley in the mile; and Ted Withington, whose 49-second anchor leg last Saturday convinced Jaakko that he was capable of meeting IC4A 440 competition...
...mile relay--4, D. Hamblett-A. Ruby-J. Edelman-T. Withington; 220-yard low hurdles--3, W. Flint; 16 pound hammer throw--won by S. Felton, 2, J. Fisher; 16-pound shot put--2, W. Jackson; high jump--2, G. Harrigan; pole vault--tie for first between P. Harwood and W. Lawrence; javelin throw--won by D. Trimble; discus throw--won by S. Felton, 3, W. Jackson...
...readers used the library's 20 reading rooms, and 764 scholars researched and wrote books in its cubicles. A "faculty" of 25 fellows and 22 consultants (among them: Poet Karl Shapiro) constantly survey and "interpret" the library collections, tell the Librarian what to get and what to throw away, help visiting scholars. The library's strong suits (after U.S. life & letters): China, Latin America, music, prints and photographs...