Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty years has shown the reserve clause to be the chief stabilizer in the big league player market. Although exceptions are needed in cases like that of Gardella, the reserve clause cannot be thrown out of baseball...
...these conjectures are, it must be admitted, colored by the traditional skepticism which has grown up among CRIMSON boards concerning the not always straightfaced deeds of the 'Poon. Let us hope that the more obvious jibes which this move could engender will not be thrown at the Lampoon--for it has shown that whatever reverence for antiquity antiquity in humor, it has the ability to adapt to at in humor, it has the ability to adapt to at least the most obvious trends of the community...
...charge that the Pact is another dart thrown into Russia's side which may elicit a similar diplomatic maneuver behind the Iron Curtain is unfortunately valid. But the value of the Pact in removing small nations' fears for survival among powerful neighbors compensates for this difficulty...
...Florida sun, he was back in Washington to try out his new good-neighbor policy at firsthand. Any break between the President and Congress, he told the U.S. Conference of Mayors, was mainly in the imagination of "troublemakers" who "start a gleeful chorus about how the Congress has thrown the whole Democratic program overboard." If anyone wanted to junk the Fair Deal, it was the pressure groups, and the worst of them all, he said, was the real-estate lobby, "the real enemy of the American home...
...Explained a Western statement this week: "Real wages have no longer depended on a worker's ability or energy, but on the accident of whether his employer had been in a position to include a substantial proportion of West marks in his wage packet. Those inequalities have thrown increasing strain upon the economic and social structure of the city...