Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only members of the Junior Class may vote for the 1938 nominees; every man in this Class should vote for six. Only Sophomores may vote in the 1939 election and may vote for three men. Unsigned ballots will be thrown out. Only men registered in these two classes at the moment may vote...
...there is a notice directed to a certain group of men in English A telling them that they may write upon almost anything, including how they enjoy visiting their sister-in-law because of the way she makes fudge, but warning them that essays on camping will be automatically thrown out. So cavalier a tone is highly commendable: it tells the new men that they have an urbane wit to deal with, and that appeals for special dispensations will not receive very indulgent consideration...
...informal, magazine-serial style and lack of much serious attempt at character analysis keep this work from the ranks of lasting literary worth, but it should endure as source material, as new light thrown upon the character of Wilson, who, when the occasional hero worship and sentimentality of the book is brushed aside, still looms through it as a great figure...
...thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore, the Government watched the Sun like a cat at a mousehole. The editor-in-chief put his sheet to bed with a Federal marshal literally looking over his shoulder. But Publisher Abell...
Martin, the sensitive over-thoughtful boy whose early life makes the substance of the novel, lost his parents and friends at a time in his life, and in the life of everyone in Germany, when he needed them most. He was thrown into the world on his own to do with his life what he could without the guidance of others who might have saved him from the mental agonies which he was forced to suffer. His experience as an apprentice to two manufacturers, his final attempt to escape from everything when he himself was his own worst enemy...