Word: prone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match was as long as it was close, the shooting lasting from 11 o'clock yesterday morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Each team fired one round offhand, one sitting, and two prone. J.B. Gregg '31, acting secretary of the Harvard marksmen, announced last night that the next meet for the Crimson team will be on May 13, when it will compete with the Boston College shooters...
This afternoon at the rifle range at Arlington, the University ritle team will shoot off a match with the strong Trinity College sextet Six men will compete for Harvard, and will shoot five shots each from four positions, including shots made prone, sitting, kneeling, and off hand. The men will also be allowed two rounds of rapid fire from sitting and prone positions...
...break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science has become stagnant, will ultimately become extinct unless...
...Daniel David Palmer was a "magnetic healer" who "cured" by laying his hands on innocents. One day a deaf Negro janitor came to him. The deafness had developed when "something broke in his back." Healer Palmer found a protuberance on the Negro's spinal column. He placed the man prone on the floor and knuckled the spine. After the "adjustment" the Negro could again hear, whence a new therapeutic...
...movement counteracting the prevalent stuffy conditions of the atmosphere in classrooms, by opening the windows and letting in the icy blast. Again, there comes an impediment to this policy, for after five minutes refrigeration near the windows, he unfortunate ones whose fate it is to be so located are prone to close them. In effect although the stifling conditions and foul air may be a means of promoting one's indifference, even the most unconventional hesitate to yawn in Professor Kittredge's face...