Word: throw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bowling-alley habitues, lawn bowls is a good summer substitute. Played with a 31-lb., lignum-vitae ball (weighted on one side to give it bias), the object of the game is to throw the ball (called "bowl") down a narrow green to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball (called "jack"). Although most good lawn bowlers play at clubs where velvet smooth greens have been coddled for years, many a rip-roaring bowling match has taken place on a private lawn. Scoring is similar to that of horseshoes. Sets (four pairs of bowls...
YALE Hazen get life when Keyes bobbled his bounder, and Holt sacrificed him on to second. Besse was safe when Keyes' high throw pulled Lupien off the bag, Hazen taking third on the play. Wood walked, filling the bases. Hazen scored on a fielder's choice as Keyes threw out Schroeder at first. Healey threw out Stevens. No hits, one run, three errors...
Again, your article gives the impression that, because in Quebec and Montreal the crowds failed to yell hysterically and throw vast quantities of ticker tape and toilet paper -as happens in certain cities-their loyalty to Their Majesties was very cool...
...night last week German Police Sergeant Wilhelm Kniest was shot dead in a Kladno street, and the Nazis took advantage of the incident to throw their weight around. (Several days later a Czech policeman was killed at Nachod, 80 miles northeast of Prague. There the Nazis ordered only a "strict inquiry.") An official (German) version of the Kladno killing was that the sergeant was shot by a cowardly, unknown Czech. An unofficial (Czech) version was that he had been shot by another German policeman after a drunken brawl over a girl's favors. In Nachod, Germans claimed the Czech...
WASHINGTON--A Congressional source said tonight that midwestern liberals, under the leadership of Wisconsin's La Follette brothers, have agreed tentatively to throw their political weight behind a move to get a liberal Presidential candidate in one of the major parties...