Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations. . . . New type vessels are under construction which tend to throw the treaty cruisers into disfavor and minimize their chances of employment ten years hence...
King Alfonso XIII seldom visits Barcelona, though it is one of Spain's important cities and he has there a sumptuous palace with a plenitude of peacocks. He avoids it because the Catalans, no lovers of the monarchy, think nothing of regicide and occasionally throw bombs at royal persons. They are revolutionaries to a man and their principal city is a fester of social and political unrest. José de Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with...
...Beveridge '32, who took the high jump, reaching 5 feet, 10 inches: Oscar Sutermeister '32, who pole vaulted 12 feet, 3 inches: F. J. Mardulier '30, who took the 70-yard high hurdles in 9 4-5 seconds: J. S. Marsh '32, who was victor in the javelin throw with a heave of 161 feet, 8 inches; and F. C. Fitts '33, who put the shot 43 feet, 4 inches...
...requirement that every single luncheon and dinner be eaten in the House. That is a requirement at once putting a violent check to the whole spirit of independence of choice at Harvard, and making freedom depend more than ever upon the amount of money an undergraduate can afford to throw away...
...Doctor of Philosophy granted to students doing special research? The intention can scarcely be to attempt to offset Yale's football victory over Princeton. What are Doctors of Philosophy compared with makers of touchdowns? There would seem to be danger that magnifying merely scholastic news may tend to throw the pale cast of thought over the team when it goes to meet Harvard...