Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedicating the bridge to Walt Whitman, the officials concerned are honoring Whitman as a poet, not just Whitman the man. I am a Catholic and like Whitman, whatever his sexual leanings; he was a better poet than Joyce Kilmer any day. They can take Trees and throw it away and/or build their own bridge. They just don't understand Whitman or his poetry. As for the man, they might remember that during the Civil War he did as much as any man to visit, comfort and help the sick...
...fables, March produced ironic little works in Aesop's ancient literary form. The best of the lot is called Aesop's Last Fable, in which the bemused peasantry, irritated at the fabulist's inability to give a straight answer to a straight question, throw him over a cliff. Here March seems to indicate his sad beliefs as to the function and fate of the writer who says unwelcome things. As for the short stories, many of them concern madness and abnormality, and are set in a shambling Southern town called Reedyville. They have the sincere hysteria...
Inability to score from the free throw line cost the varsity basketball team a win over Yale Saturday night. In a game which at times looked like little more than a foul shooting contest, the Elis won, 82 to 69, before 700 bored onlookers at the I.A.B. Chuck Ross and John Lee paced the scoring with 20 and 18 points...
Forty-eight personals were called on the two teams, the Crimson committing 25, their New Haven rivals 23, and Yale was considerably more accurate on the free throw line. While the varsity was missing 16 or 31 attempts, the Elis converted 32 of their 42 chances...
While not daily occurences, such pranks seem to recur more often than at Harvard. When asked why, some students say that academic pressures build up to the point where they "just have to go out and throw a water bomb." An interesting thesis advanced by another is that pranks are merely "an attempt to show the rest of the world that we're really human beings...