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Word: thrown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared that every player on Yost's team weighed eight tons and had an average speed of 96 miles an hour. . . . One player said he was plucked up in the air and thrown over the head of a creature which was at least 100 feet high and had eight pairs of arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Charley d'Autremont played the best game of the career in the futile attempt to stop the Tiger onslaught. On two separate occasions he and Bill Edgar made hairbreadth saves of shots at the Crimson goal when Penson had been thrown to the ground in the melee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D' Autremont, Penson Star as Crimson Booters Lose to Undefeated Princeton | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...with an Abraham Lincoln mentality who preferred civil war to permitting secession. On this issue the Crown Prince firmly took the stand he has maintained all his life, an enlightened attitude of calm neutrality (he has been 81 years a neutral) in which the prestige of the Crown was thrown on the side of letting the Norwegian people choose by peaceful ballot to go their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Moonshine!" roared Mr. Frankensteen. "We are not trying to run your plants, and you know it. We are insisting only that in your operation of the plants you shall not treat your employes as just some more machinery to be used, burnt up and then thrown on the scrap heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moonshine & Camouflage | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

About three minutes later the Crimson had tied the score with a march down the field climaxed by a Don McNicol to Loring pass and then a McNicol to Bill Barnes serial for the tally. This was the beginning of a series of serials thrown with deadly him by McNicol, making a farce of the Andover defense. Barnes was on the receiving end of most of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Freshman Eleven Hands Andover Decisive 20-6 Defeat | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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