Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardling lacrosse men dropped a close 3 to 2 decision to the Eli yearlings when Ocumpaugh of the Blue scored the winning goal in a game which was not decided until the final gun was fired...
Despite these handicaps, Hall won the event with a score of 23. Harry F. Hinckley '40 was second with 25. The low scores of several entrants in this event bore evidence of their inability to hold both wavering gun and wobbling mirror steady at the same time...
...Bren was adopted for Britain's infantry battalions some two years ago. to replace the U. S.-invented Lewis machine gun. The name is a British War Office simplification of Brno, site of the Czechoslovakian Arms Manufacturing Co. plant where the gun was perfected. * A trim, compact gun, it can be operated by one man and fired from the shoulder, on a bipod or tripod. It is ten pounds lighter and five inches shorter than the old army pattern Lewis gun, is gas-operated and air-cooled. There are two interchangeable barrels, so that if one overheats after...
Laramie restrains his itching trigger finger until all the cattle on the ranch have been stolen and a madcap Lindsay girl abducted. Then the slaughter is terrific. Partly confirming Professor Whippie's thesis are strange philosophical asides that interrupt the gun play and suggest that even popular romancers are sometimes troubled by the moral of their tales. Staring at the dangling body of a rustler he has just lynched, Laramie reflects: "It [lynching] was a common practice, inaugurated ... in order to intimidate cowpunchers going wrong. Not greatly had it succeeded...
Next the fleet steams to the southern drill grounds for target practice. Firing five-inchers, gun crews from Harvard will compete with turret marksmen from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech...