Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston as "a member of an old New York family"--all New" York family whose immigration was before the war are probably clarified as "old," we believe has written a book. All our young college graduates do that, "Such is the richness of our literature. Our Manhattan producer has thrown the light of genius on "the Boston aristocracy." That caste has so little breathing since and elbow room in a Celtic Jewish-Italian-Greek town that the sympathetic sociologists may deem it worthier of encouragement than of dispraise; but youth is intolerant. Our satirist seeks to show, or "show...
There is no doubt but that the "little red school-house" has been sadly over-rated, and that we have, as a nation, been taught facts rather than the more vital Life. Untold opportunities, have been thrown away in wasted logical energy although some few might be skeptical enough to assert that any sort of logic has long ceased to manifest itself in our schools. But skepticism will vanish before the alluring and signicant program laid out, and our children will grow to maturity with the blessing of knowing how to live life as it should be lived...
...visitors scored and came home on a sacrifice and another hit. To sew up the game, the Freshmen added another in the ninth when Zarakov singled, stole second and tallied while Howard was being thrown out at first...
...Freshman class will have complete possession of Symphony Hall tomorrow evening for the Boston Symphony "Pops" concert. They have been given an option on all the floor space of the hall, and all seats not sold to them will be thrown open to the public...
Professor Morize went on to deplore the enormous expenditures of money on building and equipment by institutions, and what he called "the incongruous mixing of courses in your schools and colleges whereby, economics, ice cream making, millinery, with a little dash of French literature, all thrown together, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree...