Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cigaret, told her story: Last spring she had tried to end a romance with Coffman, who was 39, a well-known attorney, married and the father of three children. When she spurned him, refused to elope with him to California, he stabbed her with an ice pick, choked her, threw her in a mudhole beside a gravel pit and left her there for dead...
...Christmas Day in the year 1214, the barons of England armed themselves capapie, and came before their King, the cruel and crafty John, to ask a government of liberty and by law. Twice John "Lackland" denied their plea. The plea became a battle cry, the petitioners an army. London threw open its gates to them, so did Lincoln and Exeter. Wales promised help, and the Scottish nobles spurred south to add the strength of their swords. The country had risen as a man: John found himself with but seven loyal horsemen in his train, facing a nation in arms...
...these immortal words ... we see the nucleus of most of our liberties. . . . Samuel Adams appealed to 'the rights of Magna Charta.. . .' It was in their name that your ancestors threw the tea into Boston Harbor. ... It was in their name . . . that they drew up that Constitution which Mr. Gladstone described as 'the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' And it was in their name that Abraham Lincoln fought a four years' war to loosen the fetters from the slaves and to preserve...
Well and truly do Finns know their tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Baron Mannerheim. Two years ago they threw a tremendous party in Helsinki to honor his 70th birthday. He is verily their George Washington. After serving in the Russian Army for nearly 30 years (he was a lieutenant colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, later commanded the 6th Russian Cavalry as Lieutenant General in World War I), he went home in 1917 to command the armies which won Finnish independence (with German help) from the Bolsheviki. After his White Guards had run the Red Guards out of Finland...
...hour was replaced by one man bending 120 strips. To make the wide, light-gauge, uniform sheet steel for auto bodies, etc., steelmakers came up in 1926 with the continuous strip rolling mill. Costing as high as $20,000,000, operated by as few as 2,000 men, it threw out team upon team of hand mill men who used to flip the steel sheets from one roller to the next...