Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both teams began catching each other's aerials, although unable to cling to those thrown by their own passer. Left tackle Ollie Thompson intercepted for Kirkland. Winthrop immediately retaliated, but the half ended with the ball in the Deacons' possession...
...interview yesterday he substituted "honesty and service to the public" for the team "reactionary" which his opponent, James M. Curley, has thrown at him. True liberalism cannot exist without this quality, he said...
Into sharp relief has the railroad problem of the United States been thrown by the decision of the President's fact-finding board. For, in ruling that the threatened wage-cut is unfair to employees, as well as futile toward a general solution of the problem, the report has silently but surely implied that the salvation of American railroads lies only in an evangelistic conversion: i.e., in complete reorganization. Only this could it have meant when it pointed out "the necessity that now rests upon the government for a complete and thorough-going reconsideration of the relationship of the railroad...
...pastel-colored passenger pigeons-Audubon guessed a billion in one flock-which once streamed across U. S. skies. The speed with which they were slaughtered was no less fabulous than their flights. (In New York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised, apricot-breasted model for some future monument to vanished U. S. frontiers, squandered U. S. resources...
...whole barrel of the apples of discord is thus thrown overboard...