Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enough people felt otherwise about this, how ever, for him to be awarded a Rhodes scholarship. He prefaced his stay at Oxford by a year of Knocking around France, and reinforcing thereby his interest in modern European history. The subsequent life at Oxford was a wonderful experience. "I was thrown on my own to study as I wished. And the social side of it was pleasant-lots of good, easy going conversation." Professor Brinton's rate of absorption was patently prodigious-his Ph.D. thesis, "Political Ideas in the English Romantic Period," got a gratifying reception, and is still a much...
...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...
...budget and tax curs, and labor legislation, the Republican leadership with unusually little noise and difficulty has obtained all bit final Congressional approval for a constitutional amendment limit Presidential tenure. This piece of "must" legislation is another all-too-common example of hasty, vengeance-begotten acts which have already thrown the 80th Congress into a maze of political confusion on each of the three, mentioned spotlighted issues...
...than croquet. Americans condemn the game because it moves too leisurely, has too much ritualistic etiquette, and the players actually knock off for tea at 4 o'clock. One ex-G.I. who had seen a game summed up: "Believe me, in New York we'd have thrown pop bottles just to wake things...
...Bulletin's 180-page first Sunday edition this week, thrown together in eight days by regular Evening Bulletin staffers working overtime, was packed with such ex-Record features as Drew Pearson, Hedda Hopper, Steve Canyon and Li I Abner. It included comic and book sections still under the Record emblem, and two magazine sections for the price of one: Marshall Field's Parade and Hearst's American Weekly-both of them loot from the Record. With a Sunday package like that, Publisher McLean hoped soon to take the qualifier out of his advertising slogan: "In Philadelphia, Nearly...