Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...syllables, whether intelligible or not, upon palm leaves, leather, stones, bones, or the breasts of bystanders. Each utterance was a sura (verse); the collection became the Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed, paraphrases of Jewish folklore and inscrutable foreign catchwords thrown in like sacred seasoning. Occasionally there came a flash of lofty poetry. Whether or not he was a fake medium, a paranoiac, epileptic, self-deluded, oversexed demagog, Mohammed was undoubtedly a grand and grotesque figure with a good memory and a shrewd pagan appraisal of Moses and Jesus as capable...
...first opportunity for the class of 1930 to compete for a major sport managership will come on Monday at 1 o'clock, when football manager candidates will assemble at the H. A. A. It comes as the first of the activities which will gradually be thrown open to members of the Freshman class...
...industrial readjustments. For example: An Italian laborer now blows glass vases which are sold for 300 lire ($11.25). If the lira were restored instantly to par, the vase (still priced at 300 lire) would cost $57.90. No vases would then be bought by foreigners, and the laborer would be thrown out of work. Obviously, as the value of the lira increases, the price of the vase in lire will be lowered, but this type of readjustment always lags behind the rapid shift in international exchange, and therefore causes unemployment and suffering...
Three years ago his eldest daughter was thrown from a polo pony, killed. Last week, while playing polo with Lord Mountbatten, Duke Peneranda and Lord Wodehouse, Col. Harjes fell from his pony, crushed his skull beneath flying hoofs. Died. Prince Umberto Ruspoli, brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness...
...resigns all private enterprises to go to his pioneering desk in Washington un der Mr. Hoover. Mr. Hoover, as every one knows, is ubiquitous. If it is not radio, it is farm relief, or aviation. Last week it was mostly aviation with a dash of farm relief thrown in (see THE PRESIDENCY, p. 5). Herbert Hoover has a brain that works in vast, sweeping programs. He showed Mr. Coolidge a plan for commercial aviation that made the Berlin-Byzantine-Bagdad railroad scheme look like the Toonerville Trolley. Mr. Coolidge approved...