Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Georgia and Georgia Tech plunged into a mighty mud pie, fishing for the Southern Conference championship. The only undefeated major eleven in the land, Georgia (who had despatched Yale) was an easy winner in the prophecies. But forward passes, one thrown, one intercepted, punctured prophecies. Tech sloshed across the muddy goal line twice, score 12-0, took the title...
...Story. Emily Fletcher went into her father's room on the morning after he died. "The blanket had been thrown off and hung beside the bed; the sheets seemed clasped between his legs and wound about his body. There was something hideous in his immobility, which was not the repose of sleep." Soon after that morning Emily's grandmother, Mrs. Elliot, came to live at Ashley House, and through its wide dismantled rooms there passed whining draughts of greed & hatred...
...Merrimack was comparatively peaceful, though it and its tributaries destroyed some three millions worth of New Hampshire roads, and rose 25 feet to lash at and flood the textile mills of Manchester, Lowell & Lawrence. Hundreds were thrown out of work indefinitely...
Colonel Vladiscu presided, as usual, over the military court, being assisted by two majors and two captains. A heavy cordon of troops was thrown around the War Office, armed sentries challenging all seekers of admission to the courtroom. Only the witnesses, lawyers and newspaper reporters were allowed...
Allison Choate, Yale '26: "You are thrown out against too many people in the delusion that you will thereby meet most of them. That is the source of the indifference...