Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns were the invention of General Harry G. Bishop, former Chief of Field Artillery, and consist of four pieces mounted on an iron base. Each gun has a regulation panoramic sight and worm gear arrangements for elevation and angle of site...
...take long to find some of them. Police chased the athletic coach of Madrid University around the campus and finally cornered him and a truckload of cartridges, flame projectors and machine-gun belts. Other caches were found almost everywhere the police looked...
History: On Nov. 23, 1780, the 28-gun British frigate Hussar, Captain Charles M. Pole commanding, sank in the East River near treacherous Hell Gate...
...bullet fired by the unseen murderer at a player about to make home amidst a roar of applause. Aside from the fact that the player is shot through the heart at a distance of a whole ball field and a street, the idea is pretty good, as no gun could be heard in the roar of a baseball game. At any rate, by the end of the picture the mystery ceased to be the question of who the murderer was, but rather, how he got around so well...
...Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters in Chepachet, Rhode Island, pumped her in the eye with a BB gun, costing their fathers...