Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...block long has been laid on the ground. If the experiment proves successful on this scale, larger apparatus will be set up in a field at least a quarter of a mile square, to make possible more accurate results. The experiments have to do with rays of light thrown through the large tube. Light is believed to consist of ether waves. When a body moves through a medium which is itself in motion (e. g., a swimmer in a flowing river), the speed of the moving body depends on whether it goes with, or against, or across the current...
...Belmont cross-country course has been thrown into the discard, temporarily at least, and for the next week the University and Freshman squads will work out over the flat Charles River course...
Regard for the feeling of the dead is, like the belief in relies or the desire to visit the tombs of departed greatness, a survival of primitive hero worship. And everybody is anxious about the ultimate disposal of his own corpse. Yet Diogenes, reports Cicero, ordered his to be thrown out unburied. "To the birds and the beasts!" cried his shocked friends. "Not at all," was the answer, "but-lay a stick beside me so that I can drive them off". "How can you, since you will not feel them?" "Well, if I do not feel them, what will...
Many had escaped death by the luckiest chance. Fleeing from the heat of the burning city they had thrown themselves into the water. Then hidden oil tanks had exploded nearly, covering the surface of the bay with a film that immediately took fire. Thousands perished in the terrific conflagration that followed, and charred bodies floated up on the shore...
...automobiles operated. Present difficulties in the oil business are not due to declining consumption-that has steadily increased; it has been the sudden and excessive Western production that has increased stocks and driven down oil prices. Thus far the oil companies have stood the gaff well, considering the burden thrown on them by declining prices and mounting stocks. Very few have required security financing...