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Word: gunning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Issuing a call for batterymen to report next Monday in the Briggs Cage, Coach Fred Mitchell last night fired the opening gun of the 1938 baseball season. Last year's Varsity nine finished second in the Eastern Intercollegiate League and this season's team stands a good chance of finishing in the upper bracket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MITCHELL ISSUES CALL FOR VARSITY HURLERS AND CATCHERS MONDAY | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...over a month, enough shiny brass blank cartridges for a 101-gun salute have been piled by the saluting batteries of every Dutch army post from Amsterdam to Bali. They were to signal that Crown Princess Juliana had given the House of Orange its first male heir in generations. Last week the batteries finally boomed out but the Government saved 50 shells from each, for like her mother and grandmother before her, Crown Princess Juliana's first baby was a 51-gun, blue-eyed, fair-haired girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: 51 Guns | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Died. Captain Bruce Richardson Ware II, U. S. N., 50, whose gun crew on the transport Mongolia fired the first U. S. shot in the War on April 19, 1917, sinking a German submarine; of heart disease; in San Diego, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...Sidney Blackmer), a played-out romantic actor, returns to his small town mansion for a rest cure, Halloween pranksters plant a Tourists Accommodated sign in his front yard. Tourists pour in, but cannot pour out because the housekeeper's gangster husband (Arthur Byron) holds them prisoners with his gun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Most of the moving images which U. S. cinemaudiences goggle at are projected through Bausch & Lomb lenses. Bausch & Lomb's 17,000 other products include spectacles, microscopes (15,000 a year), gun sights and range finders for the U. S. Army & Navy, binoculars, reading glasses, saccharimeters, spectroscopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Long Grind | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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