Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next day, it was charged that a certain Deputy had thrown a glass at the head of a brother Deputy who had insulted him. Several Deputies thereupon undertook to draft a measure providing for the punishment of any members committing an act of violence during a session...
...captain of both teams lost their matches. Captain Hayne, of the University, was defeated by Tryon, of M. I. T. by a close referee's decision. Captain Greer of M. I. T. lost his but more decisively, being thrown by Wood, the University's 158-pound representative. Both these bouts were exciting and fast, and provided the chief interest in an otherwise dull meet...
...traversed in nine days by special Citroen auto mobiles, equipped with caterpillar tractors. Along the route M. Citroën had erected many cheap hotels where native jazz bands were to have amused the transient guests. M. Citroën, highly optimistic, had once said: "A new country is thrown open to auto tourists. Tourists, eager for new sights and new experiences, soon will be able to make this once hazardous trip with ease and dispatch. They will be deeply stirred by the magic of this unexplored land...
...week in Italy was quiet. There were attacks by the Communists on Fascisti, by Fascisti on Communists, in which the Socialists were also implicated either as aggressors or defenders. Bombs, bottles and knives were thrown, bullets were fired, whips cracked as did bludgeons over heads, blood flowed and angry cries rent the air. Yet all was comparatively quiet. It was that the Opposition press had been effectually gagged; that a hundred questionable politico-social clubs had been closed: that the urban and rural branches of the Italia Libera Association, of which General Peppino Garibaldi is head, were shut down; that...
Helper. "And when, after my father's death and just before the war, very heavy responsibilities were thrown on me and there were many puzzling questions to be dealt with, not my father himself could have been kinder or more considerately helpful than was Mr. Baker. But here I am touching on too intimate personal feelings, and will pass...