Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college hammer throwers figure they'll die happy if they hit 160 feet. The recognized world's record is 193 feet, the American record 189 feet, 7 1/2 inches, and the National collegiate record 183 feet, 10 inches. Felton, a six foot, 22-year-old Senior from Philadelphia, has thrown better than 180 feet twice this spring and hasn't fallen below...
...other hand, the Crimson faced this problem, with a cross-country train ride thrown in a year ago, and turned up in Seattle just in time to break a world's record over the same distance...
Just as the College, on the academic level, permits students to integrate their life as they will, so on the social level undergraduates are largely thrown clear of any unifying factors. Neither Houses nor classes can claim to create any strong bonds among students. The result of both the academic and social structure in the College is largely the same. The stereotypes already present in an incoming Freshman class become hardened: the scholars become more scholarly; the playboys play more; those who adapt themselves easily join clubs, publications, and other sorts of groups, and those who do not adjust easily...
...week temporary alimony. She complained that he had once faked a foreign accent, pounded on the door and yelled: "Poor lady, your husband has been killed in an automobile accident !" He had also ripped off her pearl choker in a restaurant, she said; complained about her cooking and thrown food in her face; suggested that she commit suicide ("It would be very dramatic. It would end all your troubles and a lot of other women would feel awfully sorry for you"). In rebuttal Morgan told the court: "My wife is a member of the Communist Party, and I personally have...
...Crum & Barnes thrown over secure careers to gamble on making a newspaper out of PM? Said Joe Barnes: "A challenge I couldn't resist." Said Bart Crum: "America has been running the wrong way since the fall of Germany. There's been a decline of faith. We want to help rebuild faith in the U.S. and in peace...