Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally the Japanese, after rolling their conquest southward 50 mi. in the preceding ten days, not only took the city of Paoting (see map, p. 17) with its huge walls and 80,000 inhabitants but surrounded it, so that as Chinese troops fled out the back gates Japanese machine gun crews "annihilated them to the last man." Even so, conquering General Count Juichi Terauchi's army had gotten slightly behind its timetable, the Japanese lines were lengthening ominously as they stabbed further into China, and on the whole so many retreating Chinese managed to escape and fight again another...
...Opening gun of what bids fair to be he biggest and best year of House sports was fired yesterday afternoon when Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, called the first meeting of the eight House secretaries...
Performing in the title role of MGM's Badman of Brimstone, Cinemactor Wallace Beery dashed into a frontier set. brandishing a six gun in either hand, tripped, fired a blank cartridge into his thigh...
...high spots of the field work was a night occupation of gun positions without benefit of lights or moon, and subsequent firing at daybreak, with service ammunition, to check the accuracy of the tpographical operations by which the guns were pointed at their respective targets. The rigors of field service were profusely illustrated on the night of July 30-31st when the Harvard-Yale Battery marched, by truck convey, to Fort Ticonderoga and bivouaced for the night beside the old stone ramparts. It was the first night spent in the open with only pup-tents overhead. Mother Nature celebrated...
...neck of one Edward Simpson, Massachusetts police doctors last week dug evidence which may convict him of murdering a policeman. The evidence: a bullet from a brother policeman's gun...