Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most valuable functions of this electric eye set-up is to determine the normal reaction to the report of the starter's gun. Reaction, as determined by the first light, varies from .56 to .36 of a second, Varsity sprinter Fred Ulen having the record for the fastest reaction. Consistently the experienced men trained to a starter's gun have the fastest reaction...
...While touring the Spanish front last spring, Actor Flynn was reported wounded by a machine-gun bullet. Prosaic truth was that he was hit on the head by falling plaster, knocked unconscious for four hours. Warner Brothers, piqued at the press reports, threatened to assign Actor Flynn a public relations counselor. *The real Bagdad is on the famed Tigris River. *While the picture was in making last August, the magic carpet fell with a vengeance, killing two workmen, injuring two others (TIME, Sept...
Further the black cotton stockings may also be discarded in favor of lighter shades such as gun-metal and the like. However the belief of one House waitress that she might be required to wear a white uniform for the evening meal, was groundless, according to the Manager's office, for no such drastic change is contemplated. The reason for the abandonment of the head bands is simply to save an additional laundry item for the employees, according to Westcott...
Representative and onetime (1925-29) Governor, Ralph 0. Brewster, who had been lunching in a drugstore nearby. G-men opened fire from all directions on Brady and Shaffer. The chatter of machine-gun fire lasted about five minutes. When it ended Brady and Shaffer were lying dead on the car tracks, their little bodies about 15 ft. apart...
...Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail...