Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge will win by a clear majority, but he will not have a workable Congress. There is little chance now of the election being thrown into the House of Representatives. Davis and La Follette never had a chance to be elected this November; their only chance was to force the election out of the hands of the Electoral College." Such is the opinion of Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government in the University, on the political situation today as the nation goes to the polls to elect its President and Vice-President for the next four years...
Taken by themselves, vegetables are harmless enough, except when they are heaved by irate partisans at political meetings. The deadly orange speeding on its fell course in a theater would never have been thrown if the hand and brain that impelled it had not been maddened by a diet of turnips and cabbage...
...Forum holds a public meeting every two weeks, at which some phase of religion is presented by a speaker, and then thrown open to the floor for discussion...
...Nothing was thrown. The audience tittered and chuckled. It seemed amazed...
...command. Now Evangeline is a very great woman. She began her career by peddling copies of the War Cry and has done all the unpleasant jobs associated with slumming. She has even impersonated beggars and other wretches that she might the better understand them. She has been stoned and thrown into jail. She rides, swims, sings, piano-fortes. She does not dance, card-play, theatre or movie...