Word: throw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weight throw will see BU's Irving Black and James Lang pitted against Crimson captain Geoff Tootell and Dick Rubin. BU's entries have both thrown farther than Tootell or Rubin, but were beaten by both these men in a weight throwing meet held here last week...
Competition between the Crimson and BU should be keen in almost all events and especially in the 600 yard run, the 1/4-mile run, the broad jump, and the 35 pound weight throw...
Take nine players, throw them into a living room, knock out a wall and give them an audience. Without action the result is liable to be dull exposition of the ordinary topics of life, unless a catalytic agent is inserted. In the present production by the Brattle Hall players, George Bernard Shaw is the catalyst; his magic transforms the discussion into an amusing, intelligent play which the actors handle in a most capable manner...
...small degree upon number of students and concentrators. Endowments played a role: for instance, the Department of Semitic Languages and History had two chairs endowed for over $118,000. Although the department then offered only nine courses for a total of 38 undergraduates and graduates, to throw out one of the professors would have meant giving up completely a large endowment fund...
Since they had not learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try to absorb it in a very frenzied fashion. They read rapidly, desperately and far too much. And because they tended to believe that all facts (and only facts) were important, and, what is more, equally important, the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will...