Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such accuracy is truly remarkable but is never encountered except in the movies. I fear the reporter on that detail was a bit enthusiastic since the .45 Colt Single Action, pet side arm of Captain Hickman, is not capable of shooting 20 shots at 50 feet inside a circle less than about 1¾ inches in diameter even when fired from a machine rest which eliminates all personal errors. Hip shooting also is principally used in the movies and not by the well regulated pistol expert...
...Tristan bit was followed three days later by an hour-and-a quarter program from the Mozart Festival at Salzburg, Austria: the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Conductor Bruno Walter (who will conduct Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony next winter) in an all-Mozart program; and part of a promenade concert at Queen's Hall, London, under Conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood. Clearer than NBC's first program, this one was not relayed but picked up by short-wave and re-transmitted. Symphonic-minded radiauditors were pleased. Heretofore radio policy had been to keep programs short...
...Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke & Duchess were much in evidence at the Golden Wedding last week. Her Grace won the hearts of the assembled clansmen by treading a Highland reel with an ancient gaffer in kilts and sporran, the oldest tenant of the Strathmore estates. The Earl of Strathmore bit his drooping mustache and regarded the celebration somewhat sourly. To reporters the King's Son's Father-in-Law made almost as gloomy an announcement as a man could on his wedding anniversary: "Taxation, local and imperial, absorbs 80 of every hundred pounds I receive and now comes...
...about 17, getting $2 a week, I worked day and night. Many a time I longed to eat ice cream and bought milk instead, be cause I was saving my nickels and dimes. "If these youths . . . adapted themselves to their work, honestly did their part and a little bit more, paying less attention to the office clock, I am certain their employers would take notice of them. . . . One cannot play hard a greater part of the night, and then go to business next morning and work efficiently...
...permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...