Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shanghai holds one of the highest places among the ports of the world in normal volume of shipping. Its customs dues are the one large and reliable source of income possessed by the Nanking Nationalists. Last week the native quarter of Shanghai was ineffectively bombed by hand grenades thrown from two hydroplanes belonging to Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin. The planes operated from the Peking cruiser Haichi which suddenly appeared before the Woosung forts, fired a few tentative broadsides and scuttled...
...voice the opinion of the undergraduate body as a whole. The Crimson, however, believes that it is representative of a much wider range of student opinion than that expressed by its own membership in desiring a revival of those occasions on which Harvard and Princeton undergraduates are freely thrown in contact with each other. The sources from which both colleges draw their students, the traditions and aims of the colleges themselves are too nearly similar to permit any breach, athletic or otherwise, to be of more than temporary standing...
Unfortunately the Poles proceeded shortly to make peace with Soviet Russia, whereupon the whole might of the Red Army was thrown against Wrangel. Outnumbered, he was driven back-back & back upon Sevastapol. There he embarked his "White Knights" upon ships furnished by the Little Entente and withdrew his whole army to Constantinople...
Drake. A wind full of the smell of rain, a long, sawtooth Iowa wind, blew into the faces of runners at Des Homes, caught at the legs of jumpers, tossed thrown javelins like feathers, so that no world's record and only one local record were broken in the Drake relays...
When Jack Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be to face that hunched body with the enormous shoulders, endure the glare of those narrowed black eyes. . . . Last week in a District Court in Manhattan Jack Dempsey climbed into a chair and sat down. He had on a new suit, his fierce black eyes looked sheepish. He stuck his thumbs...