Word: throws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made numerous trips to Europe to examine material for his study and hopes to present the most finished and most intensive record of the man yet achieved. In tracing the genius of Coleridge, Professor Lowes hopes to throw light upon the varying moods and other causes which so influenced the poet in his work...
Imagine the surprise and horror of the old Puritan who designed that law should he return today to find the sinful elegance of the University Theatre, settled securely within a stone's throw of the Yard. Ah, what evil times have befallen Ye Town of Cambridge...
...optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...
...again strive for the Philadelphia Athletics after a lengthy interlude with the Chicago White Sox; Zack Wheat, another oldster, has joined the Athletics after years of service with the Brooklyn Robins; Eddie Roush has been traded by Cincinnati for George Kelley, former Giant; Burleigh Grimes, old Brooklyn pitcher, will throw for the Giants...
...been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz he threw out of Mexico. In the U. S. Bishop Diaz will wait until Mexican Catholics can organize an effective political party and throw out President Calles and his party...