Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field to post 25 straight was 17-year-old Bobby Olds of Lansing, Mich., who had a special desire to win. Last spring his family was evicted from their farm. Young Olds hawked vegetables, cultivated an onion patch, spent his spare time loading traps for the North Lansing Gun Club whose members taught him about shooting and gave him his entrance fee and transportation to Vandalia. At 50 and at 75, last week, young Bobby Olds was still firing without a miss, from 21 yd. Running up a perfect score is more a matter of steady nerves than skillful marksmanship...
...broke Olympic records. This was not entirely because the runners at Los Angeles last week were faster than those at Amsterdam in 1928 or at Paris in 1924. It was not due to timing, done by a combined camera and stopwatch operated by electricity, switched on by the starting gun and stopped by the breaking of the tape. It was partly due to the track in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Five years ago a Los Angeles hurdler named Kelly, practicing on a disused trotting track near Los Angeles, found the surface particularly fast and springy. Los Angeles contractors said...
...rivalry of the entire Games was settled fairly and beyond doubt. At the staggered starting line, Eastman had No. 2 lane, a better position than Carr in No. 4. For the first time in an important race last week, there was no false start. The field, crouched for the gun, got away together, swept smoothly around the turn, came into the backstretch with Eastman three steps ahead. Eighty yards from the tape, Carr's smashing sprint caught the loping Eastman. At the finish, Carr was .2 yd. ahead, in amazing world's record time...
...Newark, N. J., a sporting goods clerk showed a customer a hunting rifle, watched him load the gun. The customer pointed the weapon at the clerk, demanded money...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...