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Word: backlot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over a decade the new sport remained a nameless Ballard Vale backlot pastime. Then Editor Foster decided to tell the world about it-chiefly because he wanted to boom the arms & ammunition business, get more advertising into his magazines. In February 1926 he launched a nation-wide promotional campaign, offered $100 for a name. The money went to a Montana rancher's wife who suggested "skeet," an obsolete word, probably Scandinavian, meaning "to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeet | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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