Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down to something like old times with the Sit-Downers holding a week-end dance in the plant cafeteria...
...long and dubiously linked, and that the effort to match sunspot curves with indices of human activity -without taking into consideration hundreds of other factors-must necessarily be far from conclusive. But he feels that the evidence for sunspot influence is too good and too stimulating to be thrown out of court. "Definite investigations," he concludes, "should ultimately make it possible to substantiate or amend these statements. Some of them doubtless will be amended. I cannot but believe that accumulating evidence will show many of them valid. Ratification rests in the hands of science...
...progress of the whole department and turned away distributors and concentrators alike, was too preposterous to be followed. So two hundred students are allowed to enroll this year, while about a hundred are forced to pursue studies in which they are less interested, Would-be concentrators are thus thrown into other fields...
...build and good-looks, suggested he be tested for the role of Terangi. Picked out of 160 candidates for the lead in his cousin's story, Hall found his brawn useful when battered daily in the Goldwyn tank by repetitious deluges of 2,000 gallons of water, thrown at him from a height of 65 feet, for his aquatic skill when he dived from the 70-ft. mainmast of a schooner, from a 75-ft. cliff, freestyled through the water while sharpshooters pumped bullets around...
...proof that they are no more dishonest than the public, thieves often observe that of the pocketbooks thrown away on the street to avoid arrest, few are ever turned over to the police...