Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to throw a baseball 50 yards and make it hit the broad side of a barn. But how many people can make it hit a designated nail in the broad side of a barn. But how many people can make it hit a designated nail in the broad side of a barn...
With a large Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, it was not difficult for Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger of the U. S. Army to fly 2,400 miles. But they had to hit the comparatively minute Hawaiian Islands squarely on the head, or run a good chance of drowning in the Pacific...
TIME, which long ago scored a great hit with our staff for its unequaled and vivid presentation of news events, has recently increased our appreciation of its alert editorial management by publishing the story of the dog with a bone in its throat which was successfully treated in our free small animal clinic, by our veterinarian, Dr. G. R. Hartman. Getting out the bone in itself was not an exceptional feat, though such operations on animals are rare and difficult, and it is high time that the public should know that veterinary practice of the best kind nowadays frequently reaches...
James Joseph Tunney, champion fisticuffer, reading the newspapers last week, came upon a great mockery. A Tunney, his second cousin William, had been beaten insensible in a fair Manhattan fist fight. William Tunney had squared off at Policeman Paul Smith; Officer Smith had hit William, once...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...