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Word: thrown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year the Republicans dropped back to 52 percent of the total vote while the Democrats rose to 44 percent, leaving an almost negligible 3.7 percent for the Socialists. Final Results of Crimson Presidential Poll Department Hoover Smith Thomas Misc. Thrown Total College 1296 1024 106 83 62 2571 Law School 482 623 39 11 14 1169 Business School 292 128 5 8 7 440 Total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOVER TICKET CARRIES UNIVERSITY BY SLIGHT MAJORITY IN FINAL COUNT | 10/26/1928 | See Source »

DepartmentHoover Smith Thomas Misc. Thrown Total Out Vote College 916 640 62 32 46 1696 Law School 405 542 30 4 10 991 Business School 184 74 2 2 4 266 -- -- -- -- -- -- Total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Results of First Day's Straw Ballot | 10/25/1928 | See Source »

...from South to North he has conquered or reduced all to submission. Geographically the arena of Marshal Chiang's triumph dwarfs to insignificance that in which was fought the Great War? for China is four times as large as the total battle areas of Europe, with the Balkans thrown in. From the standpoint of manpower and gunpower the comparison of course, reverses itself; but none the less Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek commanded at one time not less than a third of a million armed Chinamen. From the short belt, which girdles his slender waist, hang, metaphorically, the scalps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...ticket holders. These applications were accepted conditionally to be filled only after all graduates and undergraduate applications had been taken care of. Mr. Getchell announced that the cut in applications would be made in this particular classification, and that about one-half of the season ticket applications would be thrown out after a draw had been made. Of the 53908 tickets available for sale, 21020 were allotted to the Dartmouth Athletic Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNUSUAL DEMAND EXCEEDS DARTMOUTH TICKET SUPPLY | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...Anne Urquhart Stillman, 48, wife of a rich man who was once a banker, has long had dealings with reporters. She has thrown crockery at them, which has served only to make them come closer. At last, she has taken some of them into her pay, for she has financed and founded Panorama, "New York's Illustrated News Weekly." The first red-covered issue appeared last week. About half of it consisted of good-to-excellent photographs, and half, of poor-to-passable articles. Neither photographs nor articles were apropos anything in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panorama | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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