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Word: gunness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...points for the Lamarmen. At this point, the boys from Hanover launched a spectacular passing attack that accounted for two touchdowns in short order and turned what had seemed for a time like a rout into a hard-fought contest that wasn't decided until the final gun...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: CRIMSON JAYVEES WIN CLOSE CONTEST, 19-13 | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...Townsend, who played a fine game at end, the Indians opened their passing attack late in the third period and the Crimson backs were helpless against it. Only the final gun prevented more Dartmouth scoring...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: CRIMSON JAYVEES WIN CLOSE CONTEST, 19-13 | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...three long years fleet Bob MacLeod was the heart and soul of the Dartmouth offense. His dreaded climax running ability was something that no team could stop worrying about until the final gun had sounded. One slight defensive lapse and this spectacular Indian might be off to the races...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before 7 a.m. or after 4 p.m.; no more than three shells in a gun; no live decoys; no baiting in duck-shooting areas. And many an ardent wildfowler gained an audience by quoting passages from the latest duck-hunter's Bible, A Book on Duck Shooting* by famed Sportsman Van Campen Heilner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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