Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious, wooden silence of a sporting audience when somebody gets killed: a jockey's white legs, half doubled up, seen through a crowd on the track: two men bringing a mattress; an interne bending over; in the background the striped quarter pole, and a jagged arm thrown up by the broken fence...
Just at the corner of Nanking Road, not one block from the Wing On department store, accidentally demolished by Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought...
...footballers. When the Colorado-Denver game began, Sid was ahead of Whizzer 113-to-100. This season Whizzer had averaged a gain of more than seven yards every time he carried the ball, had averaged 45 yards with his punts, had completed nearly half the forward passes he had thrown, and Denver was prepared to bottle him up. But Denver's preparations did no good. He scored three touchdowns, threw passes that led to two more, kicked four points-after-touchdown, ran his season's scoring record to 122 points. Score of the day: Colorado 34, Denver...
Rehearsals of the Harvard Dramatic Club were thrown in turmoil last night by the wild and victorious cackling of the two hens which are harbored in the washroom of its 13 Holyoke Street headquarters. Francis R. Hart, Jr. '27, author and director of "Straight Scotch," called for silence but got no results. Stage manager Kenneth T. Bird '38 reprimanded the various boards to keep quiet, but was met only with surprised and painful looks...
...brief, every University facility should be thrown open for the use of these fellowship holders. And even all these facilities would be greatly bolstered if some sort of arrangement with actual newspapers and journalists were effected. This contact ought to provide an antidote for the chief flaw cited against university-taught journalism, namely, lack of actual experience in newswork or "pressure-writing...