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Word: throws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master of My Soul." That nearly did it. "There's not a man in the world," says an intimate friend, "with more excuse to throw up his hands and turn all his problems over to alcohol than John McClellan." McClellan did just that, and it nearly broke up his marriage to Norma. Finally he turned in despair to a trusted adviser. "What will I do?" he asked. The stark, unqualified reply: "Lay off that bottle." John McClellan thought for a moment, then his face turned hard. Said he: "I'm going to show you that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Man Behind the Frown | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...ashtrays in Widener is not that there remains a dearth of them; this alone has led to the establishment of several fine friendships. Nor is it that nobody will empty them. While people are stuffing their minds it may not be urged with fairness that they get up and throw away the accumulation of their used cigarettes. Simply the fact that these ashtrays never manage to be washed is the cause of this student's complaint. Who will wash them? Not I, nor the young lady opposite. But surely someone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKY | 5/25/1957 | See Source »

...feet, 7 inches. Frank Weller of Adams won the broad jump with a leap of 19 feet, 10 1/2 inches while Greg Stone took first place in the shotput at 51-3. Bob Travis won the only first place for Kirkland by taking the javelin with a throw of 157 feet, 10 inches. Frank Weller also won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 3/4 inches a new record in house competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Clinch Straus Trophy With Track Win | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

...presidents of the Harvard and Yale University Athletic Clubs. The conditions of adoption were that the meet should consist of the nine events which normally comprised an Oxford-Cambridge meet (the 100-yard dash, quarter-mile, half-mile, mile, three-mile, 120-yard high hurdles, high jump, hammer throw, and long jump [broad jump...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: This Spring's Track Meet Against Oxford-Cambridge Revives a Long Tradition | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

Tenants not associated with the University have had trouble finding apartments. Some are depending upon the unbought property to help them remain. One man deemed it "impossible that Harvard would throw us out into the street when they haven't the house next door," and that he would not worry about the deadline. "I've done enough worrying," he concluded...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Tenants Fail To Delay Day Of Evictions | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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