Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circumference, the balls are the same. The utmost possible difference of ¼, to ½ oz. in weight should not, I am reasonably sure-, at any rate not 39 ft. affect and over. Probably, with a cricket ball, slightly heavier yet with no more atmosphere resistance, I might have thrown even farther. Field day exercises were held on the old state fair grounds, now Camp Randall, the throw down the level racetrack, on a day devoid of wind, in the presance of a large assemblage. If this record ever has been equaled by amateur or collegian, I never have heard...
...first bomb into the proceedings by attacking, not the justice of the Experts' (Dawes) Plan, but its feasibility. Grave doubt exists in the minds of many ex-Allied economists on this point and still graver doubts are entertained by many Germans. But that anybody should have publicly thrown a wet blanket over the Plan was a possibility too disconcerting for thought. Yet, it happened. Allied countries were horror-stricken. Germans jubilated...
According to a report issued from the Stillman Infirmary last night, the condition of S. E. Gleason '27, an assistant track manager who was badly slashed about the face on Monday by a thrown hammer, was much improved. No bones were broken, and the damage appears to have been confined to severe abrasions and confusions about the face...
Soldiers seized Koeff, who-on the verge of collapse-continually protested his innocence, although he had previously admitted it. The noose was thrown over his head and, a few seconds later, his body was dangling lifeless at the end of the rope...
Then, at the end of the race when whistles are blowing and crowds cheering, eight Harvard oarsmen may rest triumphant at the finish until they have caught eight blue-trimmed rowing shirts, thrown to them across the water by the Yale crew...