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Word: airgun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn home James Dennis Wyber, 14. played soldier, used the roof as a fort, used his room as an arsenal for the storage of a rifle, an airgun, ammunition, a trench helmet, bayonets. One day James Dennis Wyber missed some things, suspected an enemy foraging party. To his roof-fort he climbed, waited until Alexander Annunciato, 9, began to climb to the enemy fortress-a garage roof. Soldier Annunciato got three companions, prepared to take the Wyber fort. Soldier Wyber fired a warning shot, hit Soldier Annunciato in the back, wounded him severely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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