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Word: tosses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that state put in play, the feats performed with it by the Crimson players might not have so dumbfounded those who looked on. They manipulated it, those Harvard mountebanks, after the fashion of tricksters who, juggling egg, watch, orange, drop egg and watch-those family friends who toss a baby to the ceiling and neglect to catch it. Dartmouth's margin would have been greater had Quarterback Dooley, Halfback Oberlander exerted themselves more. As it was, they were content to score only once, winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scores | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

Those family friends who toss a baby to the ceiling and neglect to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Nov. 3, 1924 | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

Columbia Cornell Game a Toss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PROPHET IN PESSIMISTIC VEIN | 11/1/1924 | See Source »

...meet was as well as over when the announcement came of Carpenter's record-breaking toss. The running events were long since over, and the crowd of 2000 which had assembled to watch the events within the stadium had started to dwindle away when Announcer Edward Morris called out in stentorian tones, "Event No. 18, the discus throw,--won by C. C. Carpenter, Harvard. Distance 152 feet, two and one-half inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARPENTER SETS NEW RECORD FOR DISCUS | 5/2/1924 | See Source »

Other features in the meet were Cutcheon's 4.29 3-5 victory in the mile; Kernan's 178 feet javelin toss which outdid by 2 feet Greenidge's throw at Philadelphis last week, and the Crimson's clean sweeps in the broad jump and the low hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARPENTER SETS NEW RECORD FOR DISCUS | 5/2/1924 | See Source »

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