Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Department is dominated by the fear that the undergraduates will put something over on it. The student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than...
...Mason and Dixon line. The final count was 6 to 3, but this year's Harvard team lost several valuable scoring opportunities through failure to hit when the bases were occupied. Howard Whitmore '29, will toe the rubber for the home team this afternoon and is counted on to throw a wrench into the smoothly-working Marine machine...
...coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties which lie about Bury Hill and to the south far out at sea, folk noted the birthday fire of the Hereditary Earl Marshal and Chief...
Kolster Corp. maintained that four basic patents, including a fundamental tuning device by which several condensers are operated with a single control, have been violated. Vigorous prosecution may result in damage suits amounting to many millions, may throw the radio industry into prolonged patent litigation...
...Hammer throw--Black (Maine). Distance--163 feet...