Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus far the work-out for battery candidates has been very light. No fast balls are being thrown but the practice has been chiefly a warming up period...
Lawrence was not popular with the officers of the Air Force which he joined to "escape" publicity. As may be imagined, he made it extremely difficult for them and in time he was unceremoniously thrown out and much to his displeasure transferred to the Tank Corps. How he got back into the Air Force has always been something of a mystery-and here is the explanation. While he was attached to the tank outfit, the French war in the Riff was at its height. One day the French military attaché appeared at the Foreign Office in London and announced...
Tudor pulled a ligament in his back when he was thrown against the side boards in the second B. A. A. game at the Arena on February 12. He has been out of the playing ever since, and has thus missed the Dartmouth, University Club, and Pennsylvania contests...
Bankruptcy. A business man possesses $50,000. He owes $200,000. He goes, or is thrown, into bankruptcy. A U. S. court takes over his $50,000 assets, turns them into cash at auction, equitably distributes the proceedings among the bankrupt's creditors in extinguishment of all claims, at the rate of 25? (less court costs) on the dollar. He is discharged free of debt, but with his credit badly blotted...
...finds a great life force. This he chooses to worship. But then, again, he finds that he is bowing before something that is unexplained. He sacrifices his earthly love to it but is unappeased. In the end he gives himself to this new deity, the dynamo, only to be thrown back lifeless, so far as this world is concerned. Or has he just begun to live? O'Neill begs the question with his final curtain...