Word: gun
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first starting signal (a gun shot) will be given at any moment after the three whistles...
...recall the shells, if necessary, the referee's tug will stop and the second barrel of the gun will be fired, but there can be no signal after ten strokes have been rowed...
...final shoot of the Harvard Gun Club Tuesday afternoon, for the Caswell Cup, Gould, L. S., won, having made the best record in four matches. In the shoot-off between MacKay and Lawton, who were tied for the Founder's cup, Lawton won. Tomorrow afternoon, a shoot will take place for the possession of Founder's cup for April...
...Yale Gun Club held its first practice yesterday afternoon...
...Free registry would endanger the safety of the American nation. - (a) The experience of the civil war showed the value of ship-yards. "Ninety-days gun-boats" enabled the North to control the Southern rivers and defeat the "Merrimac." - (b) The weakness of the South was due in a large measure to her lack of being able to build ships. - (c) In case of a war with England we should be helpless...