Word: gunsight
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...clothes of tradition and atmosphere, for no university that gives its professor of rhetoric the right to graze a cow in its courts need envy the anachronisms of Europe, and the sense that one's dinner companion may hail from Augusta, or Miami, or Oshkosh, not to mention Gunsight or Broken Bow or Eagle Butte, gives one spatial contacts that are as cherished as the chronological ones of Europe...
Most startling 1930 innovations are the Cord and Ruxton front drive cars which stand barely five feet high. Some models of the Willys-Knight are painted partly to resemble Scotch plaid; radiator caps are lower, some being merely dummies. One dummy cap is fashioned like a gunsight, perhaps to perfect the driver's aim. Some cars (Franklin, Packard, Graham) have abandoned ventilating slits in the hood and substituted small doors. The Pierce-Arrow, tenaciously traditional, retains its headlights on the fenders...
...Inventor of the catapult idea of launching airplanes from shipboard, he was also the first pilot to be launched in this manner. As first Commander of the Aircraft Squadrons of the Fleet, he perfected means of spotting gunfire by airplane. Together with Admiral Bradley Fiske, he perfected the telescopic gunsight now used throughout the world...
...scene was worthy of Zane Grey or the author of "Gunsight Pass"; thousands driven down into the subways for safety, fences broken down and traffic held up in every direction, and all twelve of the Cambridge police force functioning as cowboys, armed with lassoes and lying in wait behind mail-boxes...