Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...
...gun which shoots a disk on the end of a plunger at house flies...
George McKinlock pledged $250,000 to Northwestern in 1921 to buy nine acres on Lake Shore Drive for a campus for professional schools,* to be a memorial to his son, Lieut. George Alexander McKinlock Jr., who was killed by a German ma-chine gun near Soissons in 1918. Later he added to his gifts to Northwestern, donated some $500,000 all told. He also gave $500,000 for a freshman dormitory at Harvard, which his son had attended...
...down on him. Margaret is killed in an automobile accident the day before the wedding. Mansell sinks his grief into a feud with his neighbors. He hauls trespassers into court, buys up the remaining hunting coverts, announces that he will build a munitions plant, a model community, a machine gun range, a Buddhist temple...
...solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French Army. In 1921 he landed in Mexico and went straight to work with the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors which, with Rivera as its gun-toting maestro, was then remaking Mexican art. Of what he found in Mexico he wrote...