Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Veil Sir: I thoroughly enjoyed your Nov. 11 article on the emancipation of Moslem women, especially since I was an instructor at Robert College in Istanbul at the time (about the beginning of Ataturk's idea to "westernize" his country) when the Turkish men were forced to throw away their fezzes and the young Turkish girls eagerly discarded their veils. The late Dr. Caleb Gates, president of the college and a very religious man, was a good friend of a wealthy pasha who had four wives. He asked the pasha why it was necessary to have four wives...
...only the Crimson's regular high post-low post offense but also fast break exercises which the quintet will use as much as possible during the season. In recent practice sessions Munro has stressed two alternate defensive set-ups so that this year the Yardlings will be able to throw up a zone defense as well as the usual man-to-man pattern...
...Reserve Conference his views on planning for emergencies: "The very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected; therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning. So the first thing you do is to take all the plans off the top shelf and throw them out the window and start once more. But if you haven't been planning you can't start to work, intelligently at least...
...educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues . . . and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...
...school at sixteen, and played saxophone in his own jazz band. ("I called myself Jack Russell because the announcers couldn't pronounce my name.") "Doing odd jobs for East Cleveland politicians" followed and towards the end of the Depression, Russell was clearing $25,000 a year publishing four weekly throw-always at his Buckeye Press. "We had tremendous advertising," he said, "that explains the profit...