Word: throws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sitting Bull, famed Sioux chief, who named her "Watanic Cicilia" (Little Sureshot). She could hit pennies tossed in the air or larger discs (in the centre or on the edge as requested) ; shoot holes in playing cards or tickets fluttering in the air; stand on one foot, throw three eggs aloft, hit each with her rifle before it squashed...
...Sophomore attack get under way, but the advance was halted when Barbee intercepted a pass at mid-field. The battle was fairly even until late in the final period, when Brine ran 25 yards to his own 15-yard line. On the next play Whiting dropped back to throw a pass, but it was blocked, and Adams recovered it to make his winning run. Heard's try for goal hit the upright...
...figures, that of his 93 principals 37 are Americans, that the strength of his native wing is three times that of the German, twice that of the Italian, 33 times that of the French. But being Mr. Gatti-Casazza and little given to explanation in English, he will probably throw up his hands, say "Find me an American Caruso!" turn on his heel and go about his business, imperturbable again, dignified, the very personification of authority...
...Wednesday the dashes, the high and low hurdles, the javelin throw, and the discus throw will take place, beginning about 2.30 o'clock...
...with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some old letters in the attic...