Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard run, took eight first places out of 13 events, but the Crimson managed to pile up enough points in the lowers positions to win the meet. The varsity swept the high hurdles and the 600 yard run, and pulled an upset when Goldman won the 35 pound weight throw...
...third place until his last throw, Goldman won the event with the longest heave of his career to upset Nat Baker of B.U., who had beaten him in last year's meet. "It was one of the most thrilling comebacks I have over seen," said coach Bill McCuday. "A performance like that indicates a real competitor...
...implications of the Westchester episode are staggering. They open up a whole new field to aggressive advertising. For a certain consideration to the MTA, streetcar motormen could be instructed to stop each passenger as he pays his fare, sieze him by the lapels, and chant: "THROW AWAY YOUR DISH TOWELS! The Crossly Automatic Dishwasher-Drier Washes and Dries faster then any other Dishwasher," or some such maxim...
Charley Gilliland. a towheaded Ozark farm boy, learned to kill a rattlesnake and throw a mule by the time he was ten. He put in his turn milking and plowing, bought his first shotgun when he was 13, played football and refused to play basketball ("for sissies"), grew strong enough to hold a 98-lb. anvil over his head, but never once stopped dreaming of the day he would become a soldier. He sent away for cereal buttons, collected old CCC caps, medals and sheriff badges, and wore them all, strutting around the house...
...consumption is headed up. In Florida, after voters failed to abolish their milk-control board, they brought pressure on the legislature for more consumer representatives on the board. In California, Safeway Stores, which preach firm prices for farmers and free competition among bottlers, are leading a campaign to throw out a state law that sets retail prices, thereby guarantee a profit to all bottlers, efficient or not. Even in dairy-rich Pennsylvania, big-city legislators have set out to abolish the state's milk-control commission...