Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock by the baying of a full-throated foxhound in the grounds hard by the house. Disgruntled, too angry for mere words, sleepy Henry J. Fisher did what any one else might, or might not, have done. He seized a shotgun, drew a sportsman's aim, blew the hound's life...
...deadliest shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With an almost unbearable suspense the aides saw the Count take aim. The General had refused to shake his hand one day in the Cracow Military Club and when asked for an explanation replied that there was only one tongue in which gentlemen explained such things to each other. Thereafter-"Three . . ."- he accused Count Skrzynski of having engineered the coup of General Pilsudski, and now-"Four...
...eleventh night the Captain heard the thud of paws, flashed his electric torch on a black and yellow Presence with jewel eyes that leaped out of the forest upon the goat's back. His rifle roared; he knew that his aim had been true, but when he sprang forward to look he found the goat lying dead in a pool of blood with the marks of incredible claws in his back. There was nothing else, no dead marauder. The captain turned upon his gunbearer a face in which horror whitely flickered. Could it be?...
...would profit by the advertisement. Copies of this manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden of England (1818), edited now with reference to the most modern scientific research and with an aim forgotten since Marsden's time, in a welter of notes, namely, to make the Polos' travels readable primarily as rare narrative...
...many subjects taught in the School of Architecture, the most important must always be Design. Excellence in Design is the aim for life if every great architect and the School must try its best to give him the soundest fundamentals of the theory and practiced of design. With this, however, must go a sound course in Construction. Without