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During the mid-1900s, the Shooting Club may have had to compete with other clubs for members. Harvard then had clubs such as the Pistol Club and the Rifle and Pistol Club...
...during the early 1900s, club members had their own clay-pigeon trap near a swamp between Soldiers Field and the River...
...early 1900s engineers first appreciated how easily radio waves can be bounced off almost any object. In 1925 physicists took advantage of this, firing signals at the ionosphere and using the reflection to measure its altitude. By World War II, British scientists had refined the technology, and the government began to dot the coast of England with civil-defense radar stations. As the hardware got simpler, radar found its way into airplanes, boats and air-traffic-control towers, improving navigation and ensuring that even a cow-pasture airport could operate safely. By the end of the century, the same basic...
Circumcision is, of course, nothing new. Egyptian priests practiced it as a purification rite more than 4,500 years ago. To this day, it is an important religious ritual in Islamic and Jewish communities worldwide. Circumcision became popular in the U.S. in the early 1900s, in the belief that it promoted good hygiene and discouraged masturbation. World War II veterans swore by its health benefits in unsanitary tropical conditions. Currently, more than two-thirds of U.S. infant boys are circumcised...
...1900s Financial institutions can't keep pace with the economy. The Panic of 1907 was one of many credit crunches that plagued the U.S. before it established the Federal Reserve...