Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty years ago an English "Macaroni" made a bet with several of his fellow "bucks" to send a letter a hundred miles in an hour. His wager was immediately accepted and he proceeded to write a letter, place it inside a cricket ball, and have it thrown around by a circle of England's best bowlers for an hour. At the end of the time, it was computed that the letter had travelled upwards of a hundred and twenty-one miles...
...Prime Minister is facing one of his greatest crises and has thrown himself on the people, "whose cause I have never betrayed during thirty-two years of strenuous public life". He has made a brilliant popular non-partisan speech. He belongs to no party except himself and he relies on the appeal of his indispensable personality. He has been criticized and laughed at; excellent! He will beg some one else to take his place and will enjoy a much-needed rest. Only, of course, he will then look on; - "and the tangle gets a little more, and the fumbling gets...
Important light, however, has been thrown upon the subject by the last-born of our Infant Industries, the new American Merchant Marine. In refuting the charge of government bootlegging. Mr. Lasker declared: "I do not believe I speak inadvisably when I state that so long as foreign ships can enter America serving liquor, the lack of that privilege might be the very determining factor in the life or death of the American merchant marine, and that so long as foreign ships are allowed the privilege of entering and departing from American ports serving liquor that same privilege must be allowed...
Books are rapidly being thrown into the discard as the final examinations draw to a close. It is now that the weary student sells them to the second hand dealer for a mere trifie--by the pound, it would seem--and invests the proceeds in something far more refreshing. In the ecstasy of finishing his last blue book, he looses his sense of values and treats his books like old clothes...
...slower than might otherwise be the case; and it is more difficult to help them by contact with those who know what the College is and can tell them. It is unfortunately true that the majority of courses that the Freshmen take are not those in which they are thrown into very close touch with the real teachers. Speaking in a manner to include the whole Freshman instruction as such, it is not as good as it ought to he. Concrete suggestions on such a large subject, and within such a small space, are not easily made; but there...