Word: thrower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Midnight Gift. A pomegranate hurtled, one night last week, through the bedroom window of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. When pouncing police collared the fruit thrower he pleaded tipsily: "L'l gift! L'l present, my lasht pomegranate...
...gentleman has been in the act of throwing the plate, or discus, for some centuries since he was carved out of Attic marble by Myron, the Greek sculptor, and he is known to the world as Diskobolos, or discus thrower. Professor Chase will speak on the Diskobolos and other works of Myron at 12 o'clock today in the Fogg Museum...
...home, vivid questions may have flashed before his mind. Who was the bomber? Perhaps an accomplice seeking to avenge the three political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There was no telling. In Bulgaria the Tsar sometimes finds poison in his dessert (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) ; and a Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised if his own brother is shot down in the street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately...
...league baseball, what position besides second base, third base, or shortstop, is never filled by a left-handed thrower...
...Throwing the discus was revived with the Olympic Games (1896) and has been a recognized event in athletic competitions since that time, becoming very popular in the U. S. The stone discus of antiquity weighed from 4 to 5 lb., although one of bronze was uncovered weighing 8 lb. Thrower Baker, Swarthmore, last week heaved the modern 4%½ lb. discus 139 ft., a new Middle Atlantic record. The world's record (156 ft. 1⅜ in.) was made by J. Duncan...