Word: throws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment with the idea of being absolutely fair for a month or so? Why do you always make the President's statements very wise and important when we realize that they are seldom his own and then throw ridicule at Mr. Borah, who is foolish enough to try and be a politician and a Christian too, and who, of course, is barred from the Presidency because he is too big to let any group control...
...made from various groups and from various localities. And who will say that these demands may not "have justification? Projects that eventually will be resolved into completed works, purposes and policies that in time to come must be adopted and financed, if accepted in their entirety today, would throw a tax burden upon the people that would cripple business, check prosperity and convert our annual surplus into an annual deficit. What needs to be done should be done. ... If I err in my judgment I prefer to err on the side of saving rather than on the side of spending...
...nature of an anticlimax. Who, in an earlier day, would have been interested in the further triumphs of Frank Merriwell or the incredible Brown after they left New Haven and Cambridge? All collegiate heroes of fiction draw the public interest because they are supposed to throw the spotlight on what goes on, and how, behind the academic walls. It is the wise author who lets his dashing young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave read about Tom Swift after his adventures...
...ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws, twelve lifts, twelve twists and twelve throws over the back." Occidentals present at these matches are typically...
...Shocked, because the sumos wear no garments except a loin cloth and a belt by grasping which they strive to throw each other...