Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hammer, which consists of a metal ball attached to wire handle, four feet overall in length and weighing 16 pounds, has been held in this meet since 1877. The hammer is thrown from a seven foot circle, in which the competitor is restrained to his fair throws. From its inception to 1891 a wooden handle was used. The wire handle, with its double or single grip, proved a great improvement over the old style hammer and really revolutionized the event...
Javelin throwing is one of the oldest forms of athletic competition known to man. It traces back to the spear throwing days of the Vikings when javelins were thrown from ship to ship as implements of warfare. Even further back, as long ago as 400 B. C., historians tell us that the Roman armies had special coaches to instruct in the javelin throw. Today the athlete throws a spear which weighs 800 grams or 1 pound 12 1-2 ounces; in the pre-Christian era the spears weighted about 400 grams and were thrown with the aid of a piece...
...beginning was the word and the word was 'reality'" is the new gospel preached by the Realty Research Society, Ichabod Babbit, President. "Man" says Mr. Babbit, "was an incident and woman a side issue. The beginning of the world was real estate with water thrown in as a chaser." Even nature has consistently dealt in real estate values, destroying and making properties with each successive geologic age. As for man, ever since the serpent advertised the apples of Eden and Noah obtained a monopoly of the ripuarian rights on the face of the globe, no movements of consequence have omitted...
Following the prepared talks by the students, the meeting was thrown open to questions from the Overseers, many of which remained unanswered when the meeting adjourned for lunch at 12.45 o'clock...
...hears of requests from the colleges to the heads of preparatory schools to "leave the Jews out" when they fill their quotas of certificate scholars. But Adolph Lewisohn understands the nature of social irony, and instead of berating the Gentiles, he has simply noted their frame of mind and thrown his weight behind a movement to supply the people of his race and creed with an institution which, without in turn discriminating against other creeds, will put the children of Israel on an equal educational footing with their Gentile countrymen...