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Word: tossed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting goalie is still a three-way toss-up, but tradition would indicate the captain, Jack Lavalle...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Injury-Ridden Sextet Makes Long Jaunt to Yale Tonight | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

...forwards from each team are clustered in a tight, throbbing circle, trying to heel out the ball to the backs behind them, rugby resembles neither football nor soccer, although the pigskin itself is a compromise between the two. Add to all this running, passing, tackling but no blocking, and toss-outs from the sidelines and you have that strange hodge-page of field sports which is rugby, the ancestor of those same better-known American games...

Author: By Roger H. Wilson, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...both relays, and scored heavily in every other event except the dash and 35-pound weight throw. In the latter event, Sam Felton, who placed second in the Nationals Saturday, hit 56 feet, 9 1/2 inches. This would have won the Nationals, where Felton's best effort was a toss of 54 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Track Team Victim Of Rhapsody in Blue, 82-27 | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

When Brazil's Congress voted last month to toss the Communists out of all legislative offices, most party members got tossed. One who did not was wiry, red-headed Pedro Pomar. Reason: Pomar, though a Commie, had been elected on the government party's ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Call to Arms | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...back of a monstrous frog whose every muscle twitch causes a temblor. Natives of Mozambique logically decided that their quake of 1891 was just a case of global chills & fever. Scientists now believe that the earth's crust is a mosaic of big, loose blocks that roll and toss every time they are jarred out of line. San Francisco is close to a "fault" between two such blocks. But most earthquakes are relatively harmless: the earth has at least 50,000 a year, which keep seismographs constantly jittery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Shakers | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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