Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of Most Estimable TIME) are so labelled because as every sapient editor knows, students at University of Nebraska are recruited largely from the wide, smiling, pleasant areas of the Corn Belt, and because, as to football players, many a lad learned to throw forward passes after having thrown unerringly into wagon boxes hundreds of thousands of ears of white and yellow Nebraska corn...
While the above monkey wrench was being thrown into the machinery of poly-national conciliation, the diplomats were even busier achieving a direct break between Bolivia and Paraguay. At the Bolivian seat of Government, La Paz, the Paraguayan Charge d'Affaires, Senor Elias Ayala, presented a request that there be no "repetition of the violation of Paraguayan territory by a Bolivian force." Thereupon the Bolivian Foreign Office replied that "in view of this insolent attitude" on the part of Paraguay, "you (the Paraguayan Minister) must leave this capital on the train which leaves Viachi Station at four...
...hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their clergyman and sang a triumphant hymn...
Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...
...Moore 158 Joseph Stanley Cunningham 141 Stuart Gordon Hardy 134 George Akin Tupper 127 James Richard Carter 126 Hulburd Johnston 105 Alfred Skinner Woodworth 99 William Temple Emmet 94 Lawrence Milton Shapiro 84 Edward Fuller Fitzhugh, Jr. 84 Edgar Ward La Due 81 Thomas Francis Tucker, Jr. 72 Votes thrown out 7 Total 2576 CLASS SECRETARY *Richard Arnold Stout 126 Richard Fullington Stevens 99 James de Normandie 85 Charles McKim Norton 56 Votes thrown out 2 Total 368 CLASS COMMITTEE *Winslow Carlton 237 *William Sterling Youngman, Jr. 215 John Parkinson 148 James Lawrence Jr. 136 Votes Thrown out 0 Total...