Word: throw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to see pictures of "girl athletes, snakes, meatballs all wrapped in one" all you have to do is to subscribe (at $6.50 a throw) to the Yale Daily News, which modestly describes itself as a "lively, up-to-the minute account of Yale, Yalemen, and a great deal more...
Like a good prizefighter manager, Dick Harlow has always been a firm believer in brining new men along slowly. To throw an inexperienced cub without proper seasoning into the ring or football stadium may often result in disaster for both player and team...
Perhaps this situation will throw the most consternation into the face of the two great West Coast crows, California and Washington, who went into their seasons last year with relatively green outfits, partially through necessity and partially through the hope of building up an Olympic crew. Now the climax of the coming season is nonexistent, and these two top notch crews are apt to suffer from anticlimax all through the year...
Admitting that it is impossible for the United States to be absolutely neutral in the war, Professor Holcombe said that the country would have to decide on which side to throw its influence...
...hall ensemble vamps till the performers are ready with standbys like Daisy Bell, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl. The working-girl songs, and also such alley classics as She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured, My Mother Was a Lady, Throw Him Down Mc-Closkey, etc., are brayed with proper bathos by a chanteuse named Beatrice Kay, who can take off anybody from Eva Tanguay to Anna Held...