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Word: thrown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irregularities, illegalities and improprieties by which it was secured," Washington Correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, arch and acrimonious Democrat, last week wrote: "Mr. Vare is the smelly but powerful boss of the Philadelphia machine. ... As things stand, however, he has an excellent chance of being thrown out on his large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personages | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...head was down as he watched the muleta. . . . He felt the sword buckle as he shoved it in, leaning his weight on it, and then it shot high in the air, end-over-ending into the crowd. Manuel had jumped clear as the sword jumped. The first cushions thrown out of the dark missed him. Then one hit him in the face, his bloody face looking towards the crowd. . . . 'Thank you,' he said. 'Thank you.' Oh, the dirty bastards. ... As he tripped on a cushion he felt the horn go into him. . . . "He looked at the bull going down slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Without Women | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...race at Jamaica, L. I. Santrock, blind in one eye, is dangerous. Bumping the rail he could not see, the horse pulled a blinker over the other eye. In total darkness he smashed terrified through the rail, turned somersaults, crashed through both rails on the backstretch. His jockey was thrown, badly bruised. Experts felt it lucky Santrock did not kill both himself and jockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blind Racehorse | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...feather in his hat and the third from the end in the second row of the "Vanities" on his arm. Constant penalties for illegal use of hands and arms, and unnecessary roughness have failed to dampen his exuberance. Extremely flashy and fast at the start, this boy will be thrown for severe losses before the weekend is concluded. Any pass of his will be not forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

Ugly rumors to the effect that the Dartmouth football team will romo within the Stadium walls clad in shirts and shorts or something similarly negligee have thrown sport writers into what the wary call a state of high tension. Be that as it may, there is one Dartmouth delegation which arrives in Cambridge today for battle, girded with armor of a far more secretive nature. "The Dartmouth", which faces the CRIMSON in a game of touch football this afternoon, is expected to appear on the field-it is hoped that there will be a field-in anything from formal dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSTN'T TOUCH | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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