Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dillingham will ride in the number two spot. The tall Sophomore from Hawaii carries a two-goal outdoor rating, is worth even more according to Sargent. The third berth is at present a toss-up between Warwick Stabler, 240-pounder who has filled the number one position in previous games, and Ben Forbes, recent addition to the squad who may make his Varsity debut against Yale...
Unlike political conventions, scientific conventions are assembled not to agree on a common program of action but to toss individual contributions into a hopper of common learning. The preoccupations of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for '"promoting useful knowledge," concern almost every kind of science. Preoccupation of the American Physical Society, founded in 1899, is straightforward physics, let the philosophical chips fall where they may; but physics may include anything from the electrical conductivity of a safety pin to the fringes of the universe. Last week the American Philosophical Society assembled in Philadelphia...
...that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which he has been exposed. "As T. S. Eliot said to me at lunch . . . ." If you are at all smart you will let it go at that and start looking for mutual acquaintances in Dorchester...
Another flat toss from Murphy to Pinansky was also good for the second Lowell score. Ace kicker Arnie Litt missed conversion, as he did also after the first touchdown...
...witness Turkish army maneuvers. The other was his righthandman, Major Mohamed Ali Jawdat, commander of Irak's air force. In the gathering darkness their cigarets glowed peacefully. A soldier sidled near and suddenly appeared from the shadows, revolver in hand. General Sidki did not have time to toss away his cigaret. A succession of shots shook the air, and the General pitched forward dead. Major Jawdat leaped to his feet, started to rush the attacker. He too fell forward on his face...