Word: pistol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club will be represented by a team in the Metropolitan Pistol League which includes teams of Police, National Guards, and Civilians. These matches will all be shot off in "shoulder-to-shoulder" fashion. In the intercollegiate matches, however, each team will do its shooting at home and the results will be telegraphed simultaneously to each other by both teams...
With matches looming early in December, the Harvard Pistol Club is holding weekly practices in Memorial Hall every Wednesday evening under the instruction of Lieutenant Bixby of the Harvard R. O. T. C. The club, with about 25 candidates, expects to participate in twelve or more matches this season...
...Pistol Club is not restricted to members of the Military Science course. Interested outsiders may not only join and benefit by Lieutenant Bixby's instruction, but are equally eligible to compete in the Metropolitan Pistol league matches. However, most of the challenges from other Universities specify that the team be composed of R. O. T. C. students and, in these cases, others may not compete...
...Crown Point, Ind., from whose jail Desperado Dillinger walked out last March with the help of a wooden pistol, Democrat Carroll Holley was running to succeed as sheriff his aunt Lillian Holley who had been unable to keep her most famed prisoner (TIME, March...
...number of people, but to Socialist Norman Thomas it is "the only genuinely socialistic project in the New Deal?a beautiful flower in a garden of weeds." Tenderly cultivated by TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal, the flower budded prettily last summer when Electric Bond & Share agreed, at pistol point, to sell its Knoxville, Tenn. power & light properties to TVA. The pistol was the threat that Knoxville would build its own distributing system with a PWA loan-grant (TIME, July...