Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jubilee guests his elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark; and Prince George, youngest son of her brother King-Emperor George V. Beginning with a simple, solemn Lutheran service in Our Saviour's Church, the Jubilee became joyous as Their Majesties left the church amid a rousing 21-gun salute, clattered off to the Palace where King Haakon addressed his people and all Scandinavia by radio...
...murder trial there. Writer Kenneth Ellis of the American's radio-news staff wrote the scenario, packed into it the stuff of which city editors' dreams are made: the knife thrown at Dancer Dolores Divine as she walks to the witness chair; the disappearance of the "mystery gun" from counsel's table while the courtroom lights are switched off (each incident occurring just at the close of a day's session, of course). To make it suitable for broadcast the script was revised by N. B. C.'s continuity writer Finis Farr...
Flailing away with both hands, up and down the corn rows the farmers went as fast as they could go, each well-trained team of horses leading in front without direction, each tough cornstalk a fight. After 80 min. a gun boomed. Swiftly the judges weighed the yield. Ray Hanson of Cottonwood County, Minn, had the biggest load but he did not win. Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies. For every pound of marketable corn that the gleaners find left in the field the husker is penalized three pounds, for every ounce over five ounces of silks and shucks...
Cossacks from the River Don region had for their leader an ebullient little machine-gun lieutenant named Serge...
...compressed air. Then it was found that a charge of black powder (a slow explosive), would launch the plane with a more gradual thrust, less of a jerk. But the powder blast sometimes causes accidents, once blew a seaman overboard, makes as much noise as a 5-inch gun. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics ordered a newly designed "blast reducer" for all explosion-catapults. Built somewhat like an automobile muffler ?a cylindrical chamber perforated with many small holes?the device confines the blast, safeguards its kick, muffles its bark...