Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon the 70-yard high hurdles will be run at 3.30 o'clock, followed by the 220-yard dash, 880-yard dash, the javelin throw, the shot put and the discus...
...bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their noses in the way of detecting a mouse...
Having perused editorials in the Boston papers and in the higher purveyors of news in New York City, we feel called to throw a gleam of light upon the all-important question of the brutal attack and "false" imprisonment of the poor boys at the Stadium by Harvard's heartless mercenaries...
...been allowed to enjoy them. In fact, it is quite obvious that under the administration of Mr. Bingham, the concessions have been operated with a view to reducing all the evils in the past associated with the practice. Undoubtedly the fact that they were all held by athletes does throw a cloud over the situation, but it is easy to see how the practice may well have grown up inadvertently and as a matter of convenience. The men most likely to be known to the H. A. A. are of course athletes, and there is no great difficulty in assuming...
...brief. Dr. Rogers' statement that scholastic grades in the United States are the mark of the Dunce cap is exaggerated. Many difficulties arise in marking, but some sort of measurement of achievement is an absolute necessity, and the thing to do is not to throw out the baby with the water you wash...