Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marilyn Miller, blue-eyed dancer, $100,000 for a first picture. $100,000 for a second, $150,000 for a third. She has contracted with First National. Sued-First National, by Jack Case, stunter: $75 for being thrown to the ground while riding two bucking horses at the same time; $10 per fall for seven falls from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into...
...light of the fact that competition with other colleges has appeared in the past a desirable stimulus to undergraduate athletic interest, this second point supporting the Corporation's plan may be thrown out at once. Whereas an income-bearing endowment which would be established with a view to making Harvard athletics independent of paid admissions is a pleasantly Utopian scheme, a capital improvement such as the erection of a thoroughly complete gymnasium should legitimately be considered a part of an institution's complete endowment. The situation may then be seen to resolve itself into a question of which of these...
...Hamburg-American liner New York, last week, he issued this brief, important statement to the press: "Throughout the German republic there is a feeling of unrest and dissatisfaction among the laboring classes. If this feeling brings about the expected strikes in many industries, 3,000,000 persons will be thrown out of work, adding a severe problem to a nation which, without the strikes, is endeavoring to absorb the 2,000,000 already unemployed. "Germany is looking to neighboring Russia as a means of economic preservation, for should trade with that country be developed to a considerable extent, many...
...situation is far worse in Italy. There all the correspondents bootlick Prime Minister Mussolini or are thrown out. In Spain the censorship of Dictator Primo de Rivera is theoretically absolute, but the indolent Spanish temperament allows correspondents to smuggle out pretty much what they please...
...Danger! High Voltage!" appeared before the reporter. When the door on which is this sign was thrown open an immense storage battery producing a potential of 10,000 volts used in X-ray research was revealed. This battery is the largest in the world...