Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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These changes have thrown the Junior and Sophomore club crews into a temporarily unsettled state...
...common good. Against the recrudescence of militarism and its accompanying vices of ceremonialism in religion and law, bossism and the demand for "regularity" in politics, and snobbery in social relations.--for these things can no more he dissociated than can snow and ice from winter weather.--President Eliot has thrown the weight of his influence. Though in a position where a man of lower ideals could have amply gratified aristocratic yearnings, he has maintained the higher dignity of democratic simplicity. For this, all those to whom the words democracy and liberty are more than empty sounds must be deeply grateful...
...small, however, and was extinguished before the arrival of the engine company. Except for the ruining of several articles of furniture by chemicals and the theft of some other property, the loss was small. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been a burning cigarette stub thrown carelessly among some sofa-pillows...
...arranged that it cannot be used a second time without pulling the entire length of the rope through a device which grips it tightly (preventing the descent from being too rapid). This would take at least ten minutes after the seat of the escape has been thrown back up to the window. Meanwhile the remaining occupant of the room would probably be suffocated or burned. As the wooden stairs would be the first thing to burn in a fire in any building, it seems only reasonable to demand a fire-escape for every occupant of a room. Yet reasonable...
...first shoot of the interclass series, held at Wellington yesterday afternoon, the Seniors defeated the Juniors, by the score of 90 to 86. Each man shot at 50 birds thrown at unknown angles, from expert traps. A high wind made accuracy difficult. The individual scores were as follows...