Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permitting one of its directors to have the jaws of several crocodiles tied shut and the animals starved in this condition in the presence of food until they became ravenous. The denouement was the filming of a scene in which "a dummy made of meat" was thrown to the crocodiles...
...police were thrown into a hectic muddle. On the one hand, potent Dictator Pangalos had telegraphed imperiously from Athens, demanding the extradition of M. Skiades for embezzlement. Per contra, young Odysseus Pangalos passionately informed the police that M. Skiades had not embezzled, but had instead given shelter to a Greek maiden who, Dictator Pangalos was resolved, should not marry Odysseus...
When Brown first arrives in Cambridge he mistakes the Dickey Clubhouse for his dormitory and is thrown out on his ear. Nothing daunted, he proceeds to "pick up" the pretty daughter of a professor. The following spring, the night before the boat races at New London, he gets stewed, although he is substitute stroke on the freshman crew and is called upon to row the race, which he loses. Finally, with his help, Harvard licks Yale at football ten to three. Is it necessary to go on? You may not know much about Harvard, but believe me, such things just...
...civilization, setting the freshmen to reading the literature of that period and, under the friendly guidance and stimulation of a faculty of men who were masters of special fields, taking that civilization to pieces, seeing how it worked, what forces animated it, and what germs of the future were thrown up by it. His assumption was that in a year of roaming within the catholic boundaries of that singularly fruitful experiment in civilization the freshmen would see and handle most of the beginnings or early forms of modern knowledge and life...
This summary is evidence that labor has thrown no fright into the capitalists of the United States. This is undoubtedly well. If labor bas ends to attain, the less social scission provoked, the better. But there are these to whom a siesta of American labor agitation would not seem so salutary as it does no Mr. Gary. They are the people to whom the Passable strike is a revelation They are concerned in Mr. Gary's later and more controversial dicta...