Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About the time Mr. McGee was being literally thrown out of his union job, Cleveland's Safety Director Eliot Ness, after a four-month investigation, got the cronies indicted on a charge of extorting $1,200 from a Cleveland restaurant owner by holding up the installation of plate-glass windows...
...every part of Austria last week statues of the late Engelbert Dollfuss, who created at Vienna his country's Christian Corporative State (TIME, May 14, 1934), were thrown down and broken up with sledgehammers by Nazis...
...cancers under their right armpits by injections of tumor particles of mouse sarcoma 180. The spleen extract which he prepared to use was in high concentration. In most of the mice, hemorrhage then occurred at the cancer site. This was soon covered by a scab which in time was thrown off and the wound eventually healed. The cancer had disappeared, leaving no trace except a slight sparseness of hair over the region it once occupied. Five months after treatment there were no recurrences. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics last week Dr. Lewisohn gave the percentage of cancerous mice thus cured...
...start of the meeting. Paul Olum was elected treasurer of the H. S. U. on a second ballot. The minute the floor was thrown open to debate on the first point of the Vasear platform...
...next year on returning from Paris where he had studied at the Sorbonne, Karpovitch was thrown in jail by the authorities because he was suspected of subversive activities. According to the Russian historian his experience was quite "Byronic," for "the jail was very romantic." After leading a "Byronic" life for a month, he was allowed to go free...