Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman described her own terrifying experience with proctors. "I took an hour exam at Harvard," she said. "May pen went dry and I tried to borrow ink from a neighbor. You'd have thought I'd thrown a bomb. The proctors all rushed in my direction, whispering and shushing with enough racket to disrupt the whole room for five minutes...
...make-work requirement in many newspaper contracts with printers. Advertisements which are set up outside a newspaper and plates or mats of them sent in must be reset in the newspaper composing room. The duplicated type, unused, is then thrown into the "hell box." The I.T.U. contends that this useless make-work is the only way it can assure jobs for all its members...
...stock was simply thrown at us," said Kaiser. By day's end, K-F had been forced to buy 186,200 shares, using up $2.5 million of K-F's cash to do it. Kaiser said that Eaton hailed the performance as "another Kaiser miracle...
Cliff Crosby singled in the first and was thrown out at second. John Caulfield got the first of three hits in the second, but died on third. Godin and Walt Coulsen hit safely in the fifth, but cool Husky southpaw Gus Keegan left them stranded. Caulfield and Coppinger singled in the sixth, but their work was nullified by two strikeouts and a grounder...
...single to center followed by a stolen base, a sacrifice, and a bunt single on the squeeze play. Meears went all the way, fanning six and issuing only two walks. Harvard threatened in the sixth, when Vin Morton doubled and went to third on an infield out, but was thrown out at the plate trying to score...