Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that the entire counter was thrown open to meet the rush, many seniors had to wait as long as half an hour in lines that snaked to the hall outside the counter...
...closing, a comment on "Confidential Report on the Confy Guide:" Not wishing to provoke a professional war, and fully aware of the shortcomings of the Confy Guide, the CRIMSON does wish to point out a great many polls are thrown out each year because they represent insufficient sampling. "There's not enough on this guy to write about" is a common occurrance while compiling the Guide; praise or vilification, recurring in a number of polls, is the basis for the CRIMSON's judgment. A more complete polling would undoubtedly produce more accurate estimates; under the present system, each evaluation...
...most students, as they sat in an open car heading west or a metropolitan office or a Paris cafe, the summer's quota of world news sounded as if it had been coded and the key thrown away. No historian with an obscurantist bent could have dreamed up three months of events that inspired more confusion among the populace than did the months of July, August, and September in 1949, the fourth year of cold war. The headlines asked many questions, which, treated calmly, would have been difficult to answer; dealt with emotionally, as most of the questions were, they...
Franco was still beaming next day as he gave Abdullah a spectacular public embrace. Madrid declared a national holiday the better to welcome the royal guest. One peevish cobbler grumbled: "Haven't we enough saints' days which keep us from working without a Moorish king thrown in as well...
...Brooklyn trying desperately to overhaul the front-running St. Louis Cardinals, Newcombe was wheel horse of the Dodger staff. At 23, instead of pacing himself, he worked as if he were in a hurry to catch a train-motioning impatiently for the ball no matter whether he had just thrown a third strike or had one belted out of the park...