Word: breech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 100 years dying men all over the world have known the busy little city of Springfield, Mass, for one kind of thing: the muskets, horse pistols, breech loaders and magazine rifles successively manufactured there in the U. S. Government arsenal. Last week Springfield received a gentler distinction by joining the mounting list of U. S. cities that boast a modern, endowed Art Museum...
Ernest Robert Breech, general assistant treasurer of General Motors, was elected president, chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee of North American Aviation following General Motors acquiring 51% control. Elected to the board of 21 members were eleven General Motors...
...case of rain the meeting will be held in the breech recess of No. 3 piece at Soldiers Field...
Benito Mussolini fired 24 shots at Italy's national rifle tournament, scored twelve bull's-eyes, forgot to open his breech lock when finished. Said an official, "I am sorry, Your Excellency, but you are fined five lire [26?]." Smiling, Il Duce paid...
Baritone Lawrence Sibbett will make himself a flat, broad nose next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet...