Word: throws
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Beethoven was not one to throw things out. After his death in 1827, about 400 Conversation Notebooks were found. His Boswell-the devoted but officious Anton Schindler-collected them all, then destroyed about 260 as unimportant, uninteresting or, in the case of two books of conversations with a violinist whom Schindler despised, because "they contained the grossest and most boundless criticism of the Kaiser and Crown Prince. . . ." Schindler sold 137 books to the Staatsbibliothek (State Library) in what is now East Berlin, and there they lay for more than a century. A previous attempt to publish the notebooks...
...most intense passages, the doctor castigates the nation's institutionalized offenses-among them: social injustice, pollution, and a war brought on by what Spock calls "paranoid self-deception." His moral objection to that war led Spock to join the antiwar movement. But perhaps because no pediatrician would ever throw out the baby with the bath water, Spock shies away from the violent implications of revolutionary radicalism...
With Jake Driscoll going in the 35 pound weight throw, Harvard has a slight edge. In the other field events, however, Brown must be considered a slim favorite. Although there is a good chance that Crimson athletes will not win in the shot, the broad jump, the high jump, or the pole vault, they should pick up enough points to enable their teammates in the distance events to carry Harvard to a substantial victory...
Last year, a fighting Eli indoor track squad upset Harvard by a single point at Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium, shattering the Crimson's lengthy domination of the Big Three meet. But Tiger Tim McCann, who placed third in the weight throw, had signed a professional football contract for $500 shortly before the meet, and upon subsequent investigation was declared ineligible...
Other Crimson standouts were John Gillis, who won the 440-yard dash in a time of 50.1, and sophomore Ed Baskauskas, who scored an upset victory in the high jump with a leap of 6'6". On Friday, Ed Nosal captured the 35 lb, weight throw with a toss of 59'21/4...