Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the silence in the musty rifle range under Memorial Hall was shattered time and time again by reverberating explosions, A. Harmon Hall '38 won the "grande finale of annual wide and handsome" shooting match of the pistol team...
Trick shooting and a duel will feature the Grand Finale of Wide and Handsome Shooting which winds up the season of the ROTC Pistol Team tonight in the Memorial Hall range at 7:30 o'clock...
Today is Army Day for Harvard, and the R.O. T.C. Field Artillery men will put on their show on Soldiers Field with the usual military fanfare of uniforms, martial music, and even gun firing, although this will be restricted to pistol shooting and shelling from the miniature trainer guns...
After the review the battalion will break up into various groups who will indulge in such "laboratory sessions" as service of the piece, equitation, pistol firing, harnessing, communications, orientation, preparation of firing data, and firing of the Field Artillery trainer gun. The inspection party will take in each of these shows, and others interested are at liberty to watch also...
...morning of Oct. 15, 1899 (goes her story), that drunken, 18-year-old Allen Britt (or Albert), a sturdy downriver buck, strode into Housemaid Frankie's St. Louis bedroom with another woman. When Frankie ordered him to leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have...