Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union employes had been taken by strikers, that other non-union men had been edged out of line at the cashiers' windows so that they could not draw their pay, that the entire office force of Plymouth Motor Corp., including its President Daniel Stonewall Eddins, had been thrown out of their offices during working hours...
Next day "moderate" shocks visited the Midwest, which, unlike California, lies far outside the world belt of earthquake frequency. In Indianapolis, Miss Lamar Montani was rolled out of bed and iron bars in the Bell Telephone offices were jounced off tables. In a prison at Jackson, Mich., convicts were thrown into a panic. In Anna, Ohio, chimneys knocked down by quakes last fortnight and subsequently repaired, tumbled again. Shaken residents of Dayton heard, or thought they heard, a deep rumble. In parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky, furniture danced, dishes rattled, pictures fell, canned goods...
...were contestants in two classes, the 126-pound and the unlimited. Finalists in the former are Louis Daily '40 and Langdon W. Mead '39; in the latter Howard E. Cox '31 and Tudor Gardiner. Advanced to the last round, after a short preliminary match, in which his opponent was thrown, Captain Pete Illman of the Freshman team will face Keyes tomorrow in the 165-pound division...
...entertained rallies with descriptions of the ex-governor, and though the adjectives were always colorful, his friends and enemies could not seem to agree on the character of the evergreen statesman. Like Prosperity he is always just around the corner, and like a rubber ball the harder he is thrown the faster he comes back. His hat is in the center of the ring again; if lifted it would reveal a well-greased political machine running overtime and hopefully attended by a faithful...
...seven times, decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. He celebrated by flying his plane under the Arc de Triomphe. Next time Harold Fowler popped into the news was in 1927 when he became the first U. S. citizen to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. He was thrown twice. Next year he was thrown again. Other activities have been diplomacy, traveling, big-game hunting...