Word: fending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last and greatest event will be the National Rifle Team Match. To win this each branch of U. S. armed forces strives doggedly. Sights are smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held...
...children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats, song, dancing, war and many another accessory of civilization...
...consider Mr. Bausman's thesis. The Allies engineered the war, which Germany did not seek, but rather tried to fend off, and the British by almost ingenious propaganda infected the pure American air so successfully that Wilson himself, suspicious as he was of the Allies' war aims, succumbed and led the United States to war. Mr. Bausman concludes that the delay of this action till 1917 was at least a negative blessing, as an earlier entry would have meant the triumph of Russian arms and Russian preponderance in Europe. Finally, when the Allies triumph with America's inestimable aid, they...
...Osaka, Japan, one Senichiro Tokuriki, shoemaker, lived with his wife until his two sons, Kazuo and Saburo, had reached the age of 18 and 19 respectively. Then, thinking that they were doubtless competent to fend for the woman, he chose another wife (a very lotus blossom for fairness) and moved away. The mother grieved herself to the edge of death, and the two lads, seeing that it was no laughing matter, took counsel together. They thought of a way to make their father come home. One night when there was no moon they stole out of the house and made...
...today's CRIMSON appears the first offering of The Crime. It is a cold world in which to launch an infant "colyum". The young thing must fend for itself from the first moment of its inky existence. Some critics will look for hidden wisdom between its lines; some will always demand a lofty humor which mellows inwardly but never cracks a smile; and some will even expect the silly young thing to talk sense. But these hypercritical fellows do not count...