Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story goes that the First Man of the land throwing caution to the winds and disregarding the horrible example of the 1919 White Sox, deliberately ordered the team representing his Alma Maler to toss a few games overboard while guests of the land of the cherry blossoms...
...swinging to the left. The sniping of which he complains will develop into a fusillade. Thus it would be wise if he gives definite indication of what he intends to do. A conservative tone may enable business to benefit from the world recovery which is underway. A radical toss will at least let them know what he is doing and a definite program will show the country what to expect. His big job Sunday is to restore, confidence by revealing what is in his mind...
...some of "Auld Lang Syne." Franklin Roosevelt took off his Panama to the officers and men of the U. S. S. Houston as he left the cruiser that had been his home for 33 days, 12,000 miles. On the Portland dock welcoming crowds saw him give a confident toss of the head, watched his well-tanned face glow with self-assured smiles. A few drops of rain fell from a threatening sky upon him in his open...
...lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable beast shall toss The stars of heaven on its horns and graze Across the grassy ranges of the world...
Last year the two best builders of U. S. racing planes were Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville and James Robert ("Jimmy") Wedell. Between their fat little Gee-Bee's and Wedell-Williams Specials it was a toss-up in any race. Last February "Granny" Granville was killed in one of his own planes at Spartanburg, S. C. (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week Jimmy Wedell was killed in a Gypsy Moth near Patterson, La. A student taking his first flight was believed to have "frozen" to the stick, stalled the plane...