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Word: guns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect to W. R. Slaughter; very few expert field shots lead birds but the gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mich., Patrolman Charles Skelly told the guilty driver to come along to the police station to pay the few dollars damage. The driver yanked out an automatic, shot Officer Skelly dead, sped away. When he smashed up his car, he used his gun to persuade motorists to give him lifts. Officers traced the police-killer closely for an hour, then lost him. The wrecked car was registered in the name of Frederick Dane, owner of a commodious home on St. Joe's Lake Shore Drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Most Dangerous Man Alive | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Behind the last barricade one Steven Pawlak, lifer, stood up. "Go to hell," he snarled. Troopers crossed the barricade after the last wooden-sounding machine gun volley. They found all the last six rebels dead in a pile. Warden Jennings, dragged to safety when the convicts charged the gate, was dizzy from gas and a clubbing but all right. Nine guards and convicts had been killed, many others injured. After the break Governor Roosevelt said: "We have three commissions working on the problem now. I would name a fourth if it would do any good." He announced that seven captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Transvaal, South Africa, one F. A. Welthagen, hunter, sat down on the banks of the Brak River to wait for guinea fowl. Seven lions appeared, drank. Welthagen raised his gun, shot one who was drinking, another who was regarding him, another who ran toward him, a fourth who retreated-all in two minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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