Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlie, these boys have got me tied up in here. . . . They've got a gun in my ribs and want...
...good for three touchdowns. The Bears meanwhile came back and scored one. One minute before the end of the game, the Redskins were leading 28-to-21, and Sam Baugh was taken out of the game for good. Before the Bears could take advantage of his absence, the final gun exploded. The Redskins had won their first championship of the National Football League. It was probably the most exciting one-man show in the history of professional football...
Trailing until five minutes before the closing gun, the Crimson Varsity cagers rallied to nose out a strong Brown quintet 47-42 at Providence last night, while the Bruin Freshmen trounced the Yardlings...
...gun-butt raps upon the door...
...overall, 16-ft. beam, was a crowded, smelly, temperamental craft. She could make 14 knots on the surface, but her red-enameled Diesel engines shook themselves to pieces so frequently the crew strung up nets to avoid being hit by flying parts. She had a 3-in. disappearing gun that could be coaxed up on deck after great labor, but had a disconcerting habit of vanishing into its compartment without warning, before or after it was fired. Her crew of 28 men and four officers (the hardened Captain was 31 years old) lived in a chamber "about the size...