Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the corrected time ruling in effect today, the winner of the race may not actually cross the finish line first. Handicap allowances will be thrown out in the final scoring, since individual start-to-finish times will be taken on each runner...
Next day the market was thrown out of gear with a resounding crash. A flood of selling started when the market opened. By the close, corn and soy beans were down 8?, their daily legal limit; wheat fell 6 to 8¾?. Even wholesale meat prices slipped, along with livestock prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop...
...Senator said. "Hoover suggested the same thing some time ago. He suggested that we ought to start ... a campaign to save food and eat less. ..." Only then did Bob Taft seem to realize that he had been thrown a cue. He began qualifying: "I know there are a lot of people who can only just get enough, but there are many who could take that advice and save a lot of money...
...Indonesia, asked a member of the Republican Government: "When are you going to let Tan Malaka out of jail?" "I don't know," said the official. "You don't know?" asked the traveler. "Well," said the official, "it's hard to say. You see, he was thrown into Cheribon prison a year ago last July and I don't think he's been given anything to eat since then...
Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...