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Word: pistolling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tell King and Kennedy [the game wardens who arrested him] to always carry a pistol. If I ever meet them I will give them a chance for an even draw-something I won't give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beloved Enemy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Netherlands and Switzerland, remembering that France had once sworn to defend Czecho-Slovakia and that both France and England had talked about guaranteeing dismembered Czecho-Slovakia's frontiers, let it be known that they are not interested in French and British guarantees at all. Rumania's pistol-point signature to an economic alliance with Germany showed what that country thought of the "Stop Hitler" campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Stop Hitler | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...distance was 1,000 yards, for which Elroy Robinson set the world's outdoor record of 2 min. 9.7 sec. in 1937. Veteran Starter Johnny McHugh, who has been sending track men off the mark for over 30 years, after two false starts raised his shiny little pistol and fired. They were away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Record Time | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Yale's ROTC 22-calibre pistol team defeated the Crimson pistol team in a telegraphic match last night by a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Win Rifle Match | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...reprimanded before his mates for sleeping in class, he elected to fight School-teacher Donald Mitchell, older but not larger than himself, was thrown out of the schoolhouse. Home he went, not to mother but to get one of mother's guns. Armed with a .22 calibre target pistol, he returned to school muttering threats and waving his gun. Schoolteacher Mitchell made no effort to stop the rush for the door, was glad when all his charges were safely out. prudently retreated himself. Chris, found some hours later at his home by the sheriff, surrendered his gun, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bad Boy's Background | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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